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Medical coexistence: As Israel faces a physician crisis, Arab Israeli doctors fill the gap

As Israel faces a growing doctor shortage, Arab Israelis now make up 25% of physicians and play an essential role in a health system that also offers a model of coexistence.

TODAY, 25% of the country’s working physicians are Arab-Israeli.
View of the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot. January 26, 2026.

Dozens of cardiologists may have skipped internal medicine training, falsified records - report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a Clalit healthcare center in the Arab town Tira.

Anti-Arab racism in Israel’s health system ignores a critical doctor shortage - opinion

Group of Australian trauma physicians.

What Australian trauma doctors found when they came to Israel


Artificial intelligence is changing medicine – but who will pay for the next mistake?

About two-thirds of countries in the World Health Organization's European Region are already operating AI systems in medical diagnosis, and half of them offer medical chatbots to patients.

Illustration: A man in a hospital bed

'Racist incitement': Israeli medical groups decry claims of soldier abuse by Rambam's Arab staff

"The Israeli health system relies daily on the joint work of doctors, nurses, and medical staff, Jews and Arabs, doctors in every person regardless of religion, nationality, or political position."

A general view of the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, northern Israel, March 10, 2026.

High-tech workers, doctors leaving: Emigration wave hits Israel’s top income decile

Emigration rate among wealthy population nearly doubled compared to previous years, Tax Authority estimates potential tax loss at roughly NIS 700M.

Ben Gurion Airport, May 17, 2026

Years of disaster drills kept Israeli hospitals running - until Oct. 7 exposed the gaps

The findings of an Israeli study offer practical lessons that could help hospitals worldwide prepare for prolonged armed conflicts and other large-scale emergencies.

A RESCUE TEAM evacuates a wounded person by helicopter near Sderot on October 7, 2023.

Skeptical of alternative medicine, I took a leap on Chinese tonics and paid the price - opinion

I found a specialist in Tel Aviv that I’d read good things about. While not a licensed medical doctor, he tests all his tonics in the oncology department at Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest.

Chinese medicine: 'I dutifully brewed up his witch's concoction every night.'

Assuta, Microsoft develop AI medical assistant to reduce relieve doctors' documentation tasks

The AI assistant is intended to read the medical record and present key information before a patient meeting, and listen to and transcribe the conversation during the meeting.

View of the Assuta medical center in Ramat haHayal, Tel Aviv. June 17, 2025.

Jerusalem teacher’s vision improved from 10% to 90% after Hadassah surgery

Surgeons implanted donor corneal tissue to treat severe keratoconus, allowing the 38-year-old teacher to resume driving and working

Doctor examines patient at Hadassah Medical Center.

A regressive step: Israel's gender segregation law undermines medical education, equality - opinion

Gender segregation has no place in medical training. It risks sidelining women, weakening universities, and damaging the international standing of Israeli medicine.

ELLA HAVIN, medical student: In her Ben-Gurion University class, women comprise roughly 70% of students.

Israeli scientists launch worlds-first clinical trial for experimental pancreatic cancer treatment

The Israeli-developed treatment uses RNA molecules to silence mutated KRAS genes and will be tested alongside standard therapy in patients with locally advanced disease.

An illustration showing siRNA targeting a cancerous tumor.

Israel built a binational healthcare system but never learned how to manage it - opinion

The war exposed growing tensions in Israel’s healthcare system and the need for a new approach to managing shared workplaces.

A medical operations room provides services in a Jerusalem hotel for those evacuated from their homes in Beit Shemesh following an Iranian missile strike.