Israel very quickly transitioned its hospitals to war footing by changing procedures and sending many patients home. Underground parking lots have been converted to fortified triage wards, intensive care, operating, and birthing rooms. Beersheva’s Soroka University Medical Center was hit by an Iranian ballistic missile in June 2025, injuring more than eighty people and demolishing eight operating rooms. “This is something that no hospital in Israel or the world has ever had to deal with,” said Soroka University Medical Center director Shlomi Codish. “Soroka now operates at the highest level of alert and continues to provide life-saving medicine.”
Medical workers at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, located less than six miles from the border with Lebanon, succeeded in moving everything underground and into fortified areas four hours quicker than they did after the massacre on October 7, 2023. “All surgical procedures, deliveries, and cardiac and neuro catheterizations are being conducted in fortified facilities,” CEO/Director Masad Barhoum said.
Dr. Mira Maram, deputy director general at Clalit Health Servies and overseer of 14 hospitals across the country said, “We learned exactly what kind of equipment we have to take, what kind of beds we need to take and the distance needed between them, how to handle infection control, and what other machines we need to bring.”
Professor Osnat Levtzion-Korach, the director of Shamir Medical Center in central Israel said, “It’s really unimaginable what we’ve done here, but it’s a temporary solution. The right solution is to build departments that are protected so that the patient can stay in their own bed. Having 200 patients in a parking lot is definitely not ideal. There’s no privacy, there’s no infection control management. Of course, it’s very safe, but it has many issues. Thankfully, all the patients are very collaborative and cooperative, and you don’t hear any complaints.”
Please pray for the safety of these hospitals that are providing care for the nation of Israel in the midst of war. Please pray for the doctors, nurses, and workers to be wise and efficient in their work and decisions.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Logistics Command has been working especially hard this past week to keep the IDF working smoothly. Over 200 aircraft have been flying round trips to Iran approximately 1,250 to 2,500 miles long, each plane up to ten times. The millions of liters of gas required for departure and inflight refueling is staggering. For reference, between 2023 and 2025, the Air Force only needed to fly a couple hundred miles in order to attack Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon. Within the first few days of Operation Roaring Lion, the Air Force has already flown more missions and dropped as many bombs as it had during the full twelve-day Operation Rising Lion in June 2025.
Additionally, Divisions 91, 210, and 146 have been stationed in the North to expand Israel’s security zone in southern Lebanon so that Hezbollah will not have a chance to invade northern Israel. The IDF Logistics Command has organized hundreds of buses each day for 110,000 reservists (and tanks, artillery, and engineering vehicles) to be deployed to different fronts.
Without much recognition, the IDF Logistics Command has also had to supply the fronts along Gaza and the West Bank, both of which are simmering hot zones. There are many infantries stationed on these fronts.
Please pray for these multiple strategic fronts of the IDF Logistics Command.
During Operation Roaring Lion, Iran has sent numerous ballistic missiles toward civilian centers across Israel. Lately, many of the ballistic missiles are packed with cluster munitions that are designed to increase the destructive impact for casualties and complicate any rescue or recovery efforts. When attached to a warhead, a cluster munition contains dozens, or even hundreds, of smaller explosives.
Cluster munitions add more fear to the conventional weapon. Israel’s missile defense systems often cannot intercept smaller cluster munitions. From the ballistic missile, they are usually armed and dispersed about five miles above the target, and the munitions are scattered over an approximately eight-mile radius. Each cluster bomb contains between four and fifteen pounds of explosives and are the size of a hand grenade. Sometimes they are packed with extra metal pellets that create sharp fragments. Also, many do not explode, requiring security services to locate and neutralize the munition. The Israeli public has been asked to be extra vigilant.
Please pray the public stays safe from cluster munitions, and for children not to touch unusual objects they find on the ground.
The Lord is working in the middle of war, even four floors underground.
Recently, a missile hit very close to the apartment of one of our staff in Tel Aviv. The building shook hard, and broken glass was scattered all around the area. Her safe room is not underground, so she decided to sleep in a public underground shelter.
There she met a family who was sleeping nearby. They have been traveling for the past year and stayed at a host home in Asia. Our staff quickly realized they had stayed with people who are friends of hers! They were surprised about the close connection, and they proceeded to talk about memories, food, and funny cultural differences.
The father shared that while in the host home, he learned for the first time that there are “Jewish people who believe in Jesus.” He said his hosts’ explanation made a lot of sense to him, and he continued to talk in a way that shows his openness to discuss the gospel. Our staff “looks forward” to sleeping in the bomb shelter so she can continue these amazing conversations with these new friends and make new ones. There is a lot of camaraderie and appreciation for each other while enduring the hardships war, including sleeping in a bomb shelter!
Please pray for this special family who heard the gospel while traveling and staying in a host home. Pray for further, deep conversations with them and others as our staff shelter from ballistic missiles with neighbors and friends during war.
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Dr. Yelena Kishinevsky, director of general intensive care at Kaplan Medical Center, and her daughter Michal returned to Israel aboard a ZIM (Photo: Courtesy)