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Israeli health care

The Israeli health care system is a universal and compulsory health service for Israeli citizens and residents. 


Israelis sign up to health care providers, such as Clalit or Maccabi, which provide a variety of medical services for a nominal fee. 


Israel also allows for private health care concurrent to socialized medicine.

The Israel health care system proved instrumental in combatting the 2019 coronavirus pandemic.

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Highly contagious disease. Child with measles.

WHO warns: Measles outbreak spreading alarmingly

 A baby seen at a family health center ("Tipat chalav") on March 5, 2019.

Israeli baby diagnosed with meningitis, Health Ministry confirms

Illustrative: Digitalized doctors certificates will take a burden off doctors and patients.

Israel implements automated doctors note, revolutionizing sick days

The farms host a range of horticultural projects including vegetable and medicinal gardens, fruit and nut orchards, and ecological landscaping.

Israel halts fruit, vegetable imports from Jordan in fresh cholera scare

 Depressed woman (Illustrative).

Surge in postpartum depression among Jewish women in war-torn Israel

By Bella Savitsky , Rachel Shvartsur
 AMBULANCES ARE parked at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital emergency room.

Israel’s healthcare crisis: The severe doctor shortage and the path to reform

By MOSHE COHEN
 Galila Yohannes and her doctor at Tel Aviv Sarousky Medical Center.

Israel offers substantial grants to attract immigrant doctors to Gaza border region

 DR. TAL PATALON, leading figure in advancement of global medical research: ‘The mental and physical toll.’

The healthcare industry’s future is Hybrid medicine. This is why

By LIOR NOVIK
Doctors at BGU’s Medical School, Assuta Ashdod (Illustrative).

Health Ministry to grant interest-free loans for students to study medicine abroad

By AVICHAY CHAIM
 Are there health benefits to abstaining from sex and masturbation? (Illustrative)

Virility Medical introduces tech solution to premature ejaculation

 The program is part of a national effort to alleviate the Israeli doctor shortage. (Illustrative).

One-third of Israeli women experience sexual abuse by healthcare providers, study finds

 Prof. Eran Hadar, Director of the Maternal Medicine Unit at the Women's Hospital.

Beilinson NEXT: The new initiative to meet increasing demands for remote medical services

An elderly woman walks through a corridor of a retirement home as visits have been restricted due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) concerns, in Grevenbroich

Taub Center demands urgent reforms to elder care financing system

 General view of the Ministry of Health building in Jerusalem October 17, 2021.

Health Ministry’s amendment for control on potentially deadly opioid prescriptions endorsed

 Cigarette boxes with an affixed, self-made cigarette label displaying graphic images (R) and those with the original label are pictured in the shop of tobacconist and kiosk owner Janine Schulzki in Berlin

Coming soon in Israel: Graphic warnings of smoking damage on cigarette packets

People crying and hugging with the Israeli flag in the background

Agreement signed to establish PTSD treatment centers throughout Israel

 3D simulation of the dispersion of 'corona clouds' - droplet and aerosol spray emitted by coughing in a closed space

Israeli Health Min. issues workplace guide amid whooping cough epidemic

 Hundreds flock Ichilov in order to donate blood on Saturday

The challenges to Israel’s healthcare system, pre- and post-October 7