A hospital at war
Underground. Overcoming everything.
Even through sirens and missiles, our mission never pauses — saving lives, easing pain, and giving hope to every patient, every age.
Medicine under fire
The moments. The stories. The people.
From within Mayanai Hayeshua during Operation Lion’s Roar.
Together From the Start
Sharon Eizer-Wolf takes us behind the scenes of those first intense moments — when the call came to move everything underground, and the entire team showed up for each other without hesitation.
Saving Lives Under Fire and Underground
At Mayanei Hayeshua, the mission continues: to save lives, ease pain, support a new mother in one of her most moving moments, give hope to every patient, and sustain essential medical care with professionalism and compassion
Everyone Showed Up
The moment things got difficult, something remarkable happened — people came from everywhere, dropped everything, and got to work. Different departments, different backgrounds, one team. This is what Mayanei Hayeshua looks like under pressure.
The Big Move
Relocating the busiest, most complex ward in the hospital mid-war sounds impossible. But the team made it look almost easy. Here’s how they did it — and what they were thinking the whole time.
Crisis Turned Opportunity
When the ward had to evacuate, the team asked themselves: what if we use this time to build something better? That’s exactly what they did. Take a look at the brand-new internal medicine department, rebuilt from the ground up while the war was still going.
Underground, Overdelivering
Two floors below ground, and you’d never know it. The team made sure every mother still felt pampered, comfortable, and taken care of. Because that’s just the standard here, war or no war.
Healing Doesn’t Take a Break
The women’s ward team believes that real recovery is about more than medicine — it’s about feeling safe, supported, and cared for. Here’s how they made sure that experience never wavered, even during the hardest days.
Five-Star Care, Wherever We Are
We might be 2 floors underground, but standards are soaring high… The maternity ward kept delivering the same personal, high-quality experience for every mother — cozy spaces, great food, advanced equipment, and a team that genuinely cares.
The Secret to Staying Strong
Nurse Tehila has seen a lot. And when you ask her what kept everyone going through it all, her answer never changes — unity. She explains what that really looks like when it matters most.
Born Into Joy
Even in the middle of a war, the maternity team made a decision: every baby born here is going to feel it. The warmth, the care, the smiles — none of that stopped. Not for a single day.
Coming Home to Something New
When patients walk back into the internal medicine ward after the war, they’re going to stop in their tracks. What was once familiar is now completely transformed — modern, spacious, and built with some of the best medical technology in the world.
Their stories. Our mission. Together, this is what it looks like:
Sanctity of life
In emergency and in routine, Mayanei Hayeshua is committed to medicine that honours קדושת החיים — and treats every patient with the dignity every human being deserves.
Dedication without limits
Every medical, nursing, support and management team mobilised immediately when the war began — at a level never seen before.
Protection without compromise
Within 4 hours we completed the transfer to the underground protected complex — the first of its kind in Israel. Including the safe, sterile transfer of premature babies from the NICU.
Because saving lives under fire demands more than courage. It demands infrastructure.
Expanding the Mental Health Center
The war has left a mark on every part of the population. The need for mental health support has grown dramatically — and it is not going away.
The new UNDERGROUND floors will create protected spaces and expand our capacity to treat patients across every age group and community.
Because no one should face what this war has brought without somewhere to turn.
Emergency Hospital and Logistics Center
Two and a half years of war has taught us one thing: normal activity can never stop, whatever the situation is outside.
The new UNDERGROUND complex will bring together emergency rooms — general and maternity — delivery suites, and a central logistics hub serving the entire hospital in a completely protected space..
Every essential department, continuing without interruption, for every patient who needs us.
This is how we make sure we’re always ready.
The New Internal Medicine Department
When the war came, in an impressive 5-hour operation we moved every patient underground.
When the dust settled, we looked at what we had — and decided to build something better.
For the first time, the department was empty. It was the window we needed.
We are now rebuilding this empty ward from the ground up — protected, modernised, and built around the patients who need us most. The kind of department they always deserved.
We know what needs to be built. We’re looking for partners to
We are not waiting for quiet to start: we are building through the noise, for the patients who cannot wait.
