A UK based charity raising funds to buy medical equipment for the only children’s hospital based in Israel treating sick children irrespective of religion.
18/12/2025
Closing the circle where it all began.
Last night at Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Hagar and Avihai Brodutch returned with their three children to light the fourth Chanukah candle in the very room where their family began healing after returning from captivity in November 2023.
That room, once filled with fear and uncertainty, is now a place of light, family and hope. Today, Avihai serves as a nurse at Schneider, caring for children just steps away from where his own journey back to life began.
Chanukah reminds us that light can grow, even after the darkest moment🌟
14/12/2025
This Chanukah, Schneider Children’s Medical Center lights a powerful symbol of hope. The world’s largest menorah, made from 28,000 balloons, was created in honour of the children of Schneider and the families who stand beside them every step of the way.
Each balloon represents courage, love and resilience. A reminder that even in the hardest moments, light has the strength to shine through.
11/12/2025
𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚.
This Chanukah we are sharing one that asks all of us to pause, to feel and to choose light.
It is the story of Avihai Brodutch. A father whose life was shattered on 7 October when his wife Hagar and their three young children were kidnapped. One ordinary morning became a nightmare no family can prepare for. For weeks he lived with fear sitting heavy in his chest.
And then, at last, his children came home.
They were brought through the doors of Schneider Children’s Hospital. Avihai prepared himself for more fear and more shock. Instead he found something he had not felt in weeks.
Hope!
A team who cared for his children with a tenderness that reached far beyond medicine. A hospital that felt safe when the world around him did not.
That moment did more than reunite him with his family.
It brought him back to himself, It brought him back to Schneider.
Today Avihai works as a nurse in the very hospital that carried his family through their darkest hours.
He now stands in the place that once stood for him, offering other children the strength and healing he once prayed for.
This is why we are sharing his story.Because Schneider is not only a hospital. It is a place where light continues to shine even when everything feels dark.
If Avihai’s story touched you, let it move you to act.
Share it. Let someone else feel the hope you felt.
And if you are able to donate, your gift becomes part of the light that helped bring this family home.
This Chanukah your support brings comfort, care and healing to children who need it now more than ever.
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25/11/2025
𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐰🌈
A moving photography exhibition inside the Schneider NICU
Last week we opened a hopeful and deeply emotional exhibition marking Prematurity Awareness Month. It runs until the end of this week.
The photos capture powerful moments from the fragile world of our tiniest fighters. A first breath. A battle for every gram. A beginning that arrives too soon yet carries immense strength.
Each image tells a story in colour. The soft tones of the babies’ clothing and the bright uniforms of the team reflect the care, protection and constant presence surrounding every premature baby. Like a rainbow after a storm, they bring light and courage into the unit.
The exhibition also features rare photos of babies born as early as 25 weeks, weighing just 400 to 700 grams, reminding us of the long road they face and the daily miracles taking place at Schneider.
Thank you to everyone who has already visited.
If you haven’t yet, you’re welcome to come until Thursday and experience this remarkable journey of hope.
23/11/2025
“𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗶𝗿.”
Shmuel Mor showed up to volunteer at Schneider Children’s every Sunday. He greeted families, offered support and kept moving with quiet strength. What no one saw was the weight he carried. His grandson, Eitan, was still a hostage in Gaza. Seven hundred and thirty-eight days.
He kept coming anyway. He walked those same corridors every week, passing the very ward where other hostages returned, holding on to hope even when hope hurt.
And then the day came. Eitan came home. The halls he’d walked in silence now held the moment he’d been waiting for.
This is a story you feel in your bones. A grandfather who refused to stop showing up. A child who survived the unimaginable. A family stitched back together after two unending years.
Read it. Share it. Let people see what resilience looks like in real life.
Today, on International Prematurity Day, we pause for the families who live the NICU reality — not in theory, but hour by hour.
Hundreds of parents arrive at Schneider Children’s in the most terrifying moment of their lives. Nothing prepares you for giving birth… and not going home with your baby.
These words, written by a NICU mother, say it all:
*“No mother imagines waking up after birth without her baby beside her.
One moment you’re pregnant, the next you’re in the NICU — surrounded by monitors, alarms and uncertainty.
You sit by the incubator, allowed only the gentlest touch. Weeks feel like years until you finally hold your baby skin-to-skin — a moment beyond language.
In pregnancy you assume everything will be ‘normal’. In the NICU you learn that every breath, every gram, every heartbeat is a miracle.
Some days you break. Some days you rise.
But slowly you discover a strength you never knew existed.
They need us, and we need them.
Maybe this isn’t the journey I imagined — but it’s ours. And every night, no matter how hard the day, I whisper the same words:
“Thank you for one more day with her.”
13/11/2025
A Shabbat of Miracles at Schneider 💙
On Thursday, Maor was meant to celebrate his long-awaited Aliyah LaTorah—a moment he had prepared for with excitement for months.
But earlier in the week, everything changed. He began experiencing severe breathing difficulties and was rushed to Schneider Children’s Medical Centre, where the dream of his Bar Mitzvah suddenly hung in the balance.
Maor isn’t a regular patient at Schneider, yet within days of hospitalisation, the dedicated team formed a close bond with him. As his condition stabilised and he was finally able to stand and read from the Torah, one thing became clear: this milestone was not going to be lost.
In record time, our staff pulled together a full Bar Mitzvah ceremony right inside Schneider’s synagogue.
Prayers, dancing, music, wide smiles across the ward—an island of light in the middle of a challenging week.
A moment of pure hope. A celebration of resilience. A reminder of why Schneider stands at the heart of every child’s story: because here, childhood doesn’t stop for illness.
Maor, mazal tov.
We wish you full health, joy, and strength as you step into this new chapter.
Wishing our entire community a warm, peaceful Shabbat Shalom from everyone at Schneider Children’s. 💙
31/10/2025
A moment of light, compassion, and continuity 💛
This week, Schneider Children’s Medical Centre of Israel had the privilege of hosting Noam Perry, daughter of the late author and artist Haim Perry, who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October and murdered in captivity in Gaza.
As part of an initiative by SASA Setton, Noam visited the hospital’s educational centre in the surgical department, where she read her father’s moving children’s book, “Yirena”, to the young patients. After the reading, the children took part in a creative art activity inspired by the moon, alongside the educational team.
The event was attended by Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev, Director of Schneider Children’s, Amar Givati, CEO of SASA Setton, and Nurit Avni Shapira, Head of the Educational Centre.
Noam shared:
“It is a great honour to continue the path my father paved – a path of words, compassion, and light. To bring comfort and joy to children fighting for their health, and to remember our duty to bring home all the hostages and the fallen. This is a mission we must never abandon.”
Haim Perry’s award-winning book, “Yirena”, recipient of the 2024 SASA Setton Prize for Children’s Literature, has been lovingly donated by his family to educational centres in hospitals across Israel – for the sake of the children, the hope, and the light. ✨
20/10/2025
A Full Circle Moment for Shmuel – A Grandfather, Soldier, and Volunteer with a Heart of Gold 💙
Shmuel Mor, grandfather of former hostage Eitan Mor, has been part of the Schneider Children’s family for many years.
After 40 years of service in the IDF and leading a department at the Ramat Gan Municipality, Shmuel retired — but just a month later chose to keep giving. For the past seven years, every Sunday, he’s volunteered with Our Children Foundation at Schneider, managing the volunteer team with his signature calm, warmth, and smile.
Even during the two agonising years when his grandson Eitan was held in Gaza, Shmuel never stopped showing up. He kept his routine, his giving spirit, and his hope alive.
“Every hostage who returns home is a joy for us all,” he said — and this week, that joy was finally his.
Eitan, who was captured while saving lives at the Nova site, is home again. The emotional reunion between grandfather and grandson took place at Schneider’s Returning Children Unit — the very place Shmuel has served with such devotion.
We wish Shmuel many more years of giving, and to Eitan and all the survivors, a full recovery — body and soul.
13/10/2025
Our children have come home 💙
Joyful moments from the Returning Unit at Schneider
13/10/2025
We wholeheartedly welcome Alon, Guy, Avinatan, Eitan, and Avitar — who arrived today at the “Children Returned” Unit at Beilinson in Schneider — a department that has waited two long years for their return.
We also celebrate the homecoming of all the other hostages who have finally been reunited with their families.
These moments of return move us deeply and restore great hope in all our hearts.
Wishing each of them complete healing — in body and in spirit.
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Supporting the hospital that supported our family.
UK Friends of Schneider Children’s Hospital is a group of dedicated volunteers who work to raise funds to buy medical equipment for this one-of-a-kind hospital.
In July 2006, we received the devastating news that our one-year-old grandson had been diagnosed with cancer. Following the care and support he and our family received from Schneider’s Hospital, we wanted to show our appreciation and thanks to the hospital and hence the UK Friends of Schneider Children's Hospital was born. Several years later, one of our granddaughters was also diagnosed with cancer and was successfully treated at Schneider Children’s. This inspired us even more to give something back to the Hospital.
Since the formation of our committee in 2008 we have held many events, from parlour evenings and coffee mornings, to supper quizzes and sponsored walks. We’ve participated in family events, such as theatre shows and the Maccabi GB Community Fun Run. We also receive generous donations for our Rosh Hashana and Pesach Appeals every year. Going forward, we’re planning to hold an annual fundraising dinner.
Over the years your donations have been used to purchase much needed Medical Equipment for the hospital such as a spectrophotometer, a calorimeter for the Gastroenterology Institute, ventilator for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), warming beds for the NICU, Pain Management infusion pumps and more. Most recently, we purchased a new and advanced incubator for the NICU, which was dedicated to the late Rosalie Silver, one of our dedicated committee members.
