Real Sheba Stories
Cross-cultural hope at Sheba Medical Center
In an act of cross-cultural hope Linoy Davidov, a 9-year-old Israeli girl, received a new lease on life thanks to a heart transplant from Bissan Altalaka, a young Arab woman of blessed memory. Watch this miraculous story of hope without boundaries that took place at...
Inside Sheba’s life-saving burn unit
Ravid, a 17-year-old teenager, received life-saving treatment at Sheba Medical Centers burn unit when she was a young child. 14 years later, Ravid says the one thing she remembers more than the pain is the kind care she received from the staff at Sheba, with whom she...
Sheba Spans Generations
What a busy family! Dr. Moshe Levinkoff, Director of the Department of Orthopedics. To his right, his daughter Dr. Dana Har-Zahav, a doctor in the neonatal unit, and her husband Dr. Gil Har-Zahav, a surgeon. Alongside Gil, his father, Dr. Yadael Har-Zahav, a senior...
The Gift of Giving: Israel’s First Gift Room
Established by siblings working at Sheba in memory of their parents, the new gift room brings smiles to geriatric patients The concept of a hospital gift room is not new. Many hospitals around the world have gift rooms for kids, a place where children hospitalized for...
Aslan’s Story: How the Fight Against Bladder Carcinoma
Battling Bladder Carcinoma: Learn how Aslan got from a hospital bed to walking on the beach with his wife. It was then that I learned about Sheba Medical Center from friends, and decided to come to Israel for examination. Shortly after arriving in Israel, I went to...
Veniamin’s Story: “Believe in People, Believe in Yourself,
Read Katya’s testimony on how treatment in Israel won her 10-year-old son a second chance at a healthy life My son Veniamin was born with a congenital heart defect called tetralogy of Fallot, and when he was only three months old he underwent his first open heart...
Fighting Breast Cancer: Anna’s Story
Discover how Anna’s search for advanced cancer care brought her all the way from Siberia to sunny Israel. This is her breast cancer story.It was September 2020, and after a very stressful and difficult time in my life, during which I’ve lost both my brother and...