Save a Child’s Heart

More people are at risk of heart failure worldwide, researchers say

Two out of 100 Israelis, Europeans, North Americans at risk for dangerous heart failure, according to researchers.

 Heart attack (Illustrative).
 The children – Gai, 8, Habiba, 6, Phillip, 5, and Joel, 5 – arrived in Israel and will have surgery on December 21st.

Israeli organizations to provide South Sudanese children with life-saving heart surgery

The Save a Child's Heart team attends the wedding of a woman in Zanzibar who they saved 15 years ago

Save a Child's Heart team attends wedding of girl they saved 15 years ago

 Prof. Arie Schachner, president of Save a Child's Heart.

This surgeon has helped children get heart surgery in Israel for decades


Israel is 'tolerant, peace-loving, Western democracy' - Sylvan Adams

“I am not trying to convince the haters and the antisemites,” said Adams. “I am speaking to the apolitical silent majority, in their living rooms and on their mobile phones.”

 Sylvan Adams at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, September 12, 2022

Professor Nachman Ash celebrates 26 years of Save a Child's Heart

Ash met the medical professionals who were training to do work for SACH in Zambia, Ethiopia, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza.

 Prof. Nachman Ash celebrates the 26th anniversary of Save a Child's Heart.

New pediatric IC unit unveiled at Wolfson Medical Center

The newly constructed unit will be equipped with the "highest quality" intensive care facilities and "state-of-the-art" technology.

 The new pediatric intensive care unit at Wolfson Medical Center

Tanzanian teen gets life-saving surgery in Israel thanks to Bat Mitzvah girl

Amelie Anderson first became engaged with SACH, which has saved at least 6,000 pediatric heart care patients, in October 2020 when she embarked on her first challenge.

Amelie Anderson, 12, raised funds for Salma, 15, to receive life-saving heart surgery in Israel

Frej visits Kosovar children in Israel getting life-saving treatment

The two children, Anisa and Florim, were both born with a congenital heart disease that can't be treated in Kosovo.

 Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej meeting Anisa and Florim, two children who were brought from Kosovo to Israel by Save a Child's Heart to undergo life-saving cardiac care at Wolfson Hospital.

Children saved by Israeli doctors dress up as them for Purim

The big doctors played along with the tiny doctors and allowed them to use stethoscopes in the hospital to check their hearts.

 the children of the Save a Child's Heart (SACH) dressed up as the doctors who saved their lives

Girl from Myanmar undergoes cardiac surgery in Israel

Eight-year-old Hannah had to be granted a special permit to fly to Israel for treatment because of civil war in Myanmar.

 Hannah with Morris Kahn.

From Myanmar to Israel: Doctors wish child 'Merry Christmas'

Physicians from three religious backgrounds came together to wish little Hannah, brought to Israel from Myanmar by Save a Child's Heart, a “Merry Christmas.”

 Physicians from three religious backgrounds came together to wish little Hannah a “Merry Christmas” at the Sylvan Adams Childress Hospital in Holon.

All Ethiopian Jews must be brought home to Israel

In Gondar, the center of Ethiopia’s historic Jewish community, 10,000 members of Beta Yisrael wait anxiously to immigrate to the Jewish state.

 Ethiopian-Israelis protest outside government buildings in Jerusalem, demanding that their relatives be rescues and brought to the country, on November 14, 2021.

Bahrain's ambassador to Israel visits Palestinian children at hospital

Save a Child's Heart works to bring children from around the world annually to undergo life-saving heart treatments in Israel.

Bahraini Ambassador to Israel Khaled Yousif al-Jalahama is seen visiting the Children's House of Save a Child's Heart.

Save a Child’s Heart Africa to bring Congolese children to Israel

Save a Child’s Heart is the first Israeli organization to receive the United Nations Population Award in recognition of its humanitarian activities.

 (L-R) Save A Child's Heart President Haim Taib speaks with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi