Nitzan Horowitz

Deri steps into Health Ministry, will push for higher budget

Arye Deri said that he will focus on two main issues for the ministry: a significant addition to the budget base of NIS 5.85 billion and better management and implementation abilities.

Shas leader MK Arye Deri is seen at the Knesset, on July 26, 2021.
MERETZ PARTY chairman Nitzan Horowitz attends an Israel News Company conference in Jerusalem last week.

Health Minister Horowitz denounces Finance Ministry 'interference'

 Israeli foreign minister and Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid walks next to Head of opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu at the assembly hall for a special session in memory of Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, on November 8, 2021.

With Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Israel exits Lapid's intolerant gov't - opinion

 View of the Kaplan Medical Center, in Rehovot, on December 11, 2020.

Two additional acute centers open for treatment of victims of rape, sexual assault


Grapevine October 23, 2022: A Yemenite festival

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Yemeni Jews demonstrate outside the Cabinet office in Sanaa, March 2009

Israel Cancer Association marks 70th anniversary at launch of annual door-knock campaign

The ICA, which provides research, therapy, a telephone call-in service, educational tools, and help for families, receives its funding from the general public and from other nongovernmental sources.

Israel Cancer Association Breast Cancer Awareness Month demonstration.

Lapid and Barbivai establish ‘voluntary’ shorter shifts for medical residents

Lapid told the Finance Ministry to transfer NIS 66 million to those hospitals, not only those in the periphery, that are willing to shorten shifts from an exhausting 26 hours to 18. 

 Hospital reception area

Herzog denounces politicization of World Health Assembly

"Such resolutions, based on falsehoods and ulterior motives, damage the work and reputation of this distinguished body, while negatively impacting on health cooperation in the region," he said.

 President Isaac Herzog speaking at the European Regional Conference of the World Health Organization, September 12, 2022.

Israel to host WHO European regional conference for the first time

During the conference, Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz will sign cooperation agreements in the field of health with Germany, Croatia, Cyprus and Kazakhstan.

A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021.

Israeli gov't must implement medical shifts reform, Health min. says

In a letter, Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz accused the Finance Ministry's budgeting department of not taking the medical shift reform into account.

 Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz,  December 30, 2021.

Grapevine August 26, 2022: Happy anniversary

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 US AMBASSADOR Tom Nides (right) looks at the nano-Bible at the David and Janet Polak Visitors Center, alongside Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan.

Israeli women enjoy more freedom, gender equality than other countries - opinion

While there is definitely still room for improvement, women in Israel can be reassured that we are thankfully in a relatively strong position compared with many of our sisters abroad.

 PROTESTING THE US decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, in Tel Aviv, July 4.

Grapevine August 10, 2022: Casting blame

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

 ABOUT TO unveil the plaque at the Gandel Rehabilitation Center at Hadassah-University Medical Center on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus are (from left) John Gandel, Pauline Gandel, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Jorge Diener, executive director of Hadassah International.

Monkeypox: We cannot be complacent on LGBTQ+ health - opinion

The monkeypox outbreak has shown the LGBTQ+ community has specific needs, just like any community, and the next Israeli government must recognize and prioritize the challenges we face.

 HEALTH MINISTER Nitzan Horowitz arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office, in Jerusalem.

Israel ups monkeypox vaccine shipment to 5K after WHO declaration

The original agreed-upon shipment of 2,000 vaccines was more than doubled on Horowitz's request • 105 Israeli men test positive for monkeypox as of Saturday

 Test tubes labeled "Monkeypox virus positive and negative" are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022