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Jewish News 24 · Jul 27, 2026

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Israel’s Hillel Yaffe Medical Center has introduced a new therapeutic tool intended to help parents of premature babies maintain a connection with their infants during the extended periods of physical separation that hospitalization requires, according to the medical center. The tool, a small heart-shaped piece of flannel fabric exchanged daily between mother and baby, is part of an initiative called “Close to the Heart,” developed jointly by the hospital’s Occupational Therapy Service, Premature Birth Unit and Textile Division.

Israel’s Hillel Yaffe Medical Center has introduced a new therapeutic tool intended to help parents of premature babies maintain a connection with their infants during the extended periods of physical separation that hospitalization requires, according to the medical center. The tool, a small heart-shaped piece of flannel fabric exchanged daily between mother and baby, is part of an initiative called “Close to the Heart,” developed jointly by the hospital’s Occupational Therapy Service, Premature Birth Unit and Textile Division.

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