Soroka Medical Center

Rambam, Rabin, and Sheba: Health Ministry reveals Israel's top hospitals

The index examines staffing levels, patient experience, and clinical outcomes and serves as the basis for performance-based incentive grants to hospitals.

 Israeli soldiers and medical staff at the underground hospital at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on September 22, 2024.
Israeli police tape.

Three shot dead in Shfaram as Arab society murder toll reaches eight since start of 2026

The scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage at the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, June 19, 2025.

Gov't failed on hospital defense even after Iran missile hit Beersheba

SMOKE RISES from Soroka Medical Center on June 19, after an Iranian ballistic missile packed with over 400 kilos of explosives slammed into the Northern Surgical Building, destroying two floors.

Beersheba spirit: Rebuilding lives, labs, and hope after Iranian missile attacks - opinion


Who are Israel's best doctors in each field?

The list contains a total of 378 doctors and, for the first time, includes gynecologists and fertility specialists.

 Female doctor looking at x ray film of patient head injury while working with another doctor at the hospital. Medical healthcare staff and doctor service.

Heat waves are most dangerous in cold countries -Soroka Med

Much of Europe has been sweltering under temperatures near 40 degrees centigrade, sending residents of England, France, Italy and elsewhere to historical fountains in cities to jump in and cool off.

A man dives into River Thames, during a heatwave in Oxford, Britain, July 19, 2022.

What causes ADHD? New Israeli study may have found out

ADHD is one of the most common mental disorders that usually first show up during childhood. This disorder in particular is characterized by hyperactivity and difficulty focusing.

 Brain of a child with ADHD with overall reduced volume and a proportional reduction in the left-sided prefrontal cortex.

3 in serious condition after violent funeral brawl in Rahat

The individuals involved in the brawl are thought to be of the Talalka and Alexasi families, who engaged in a mass brawl at Soroka with guns and knives earlier this month.

Male hands arrested with handcuffs in Criminal concept (illustrative)

19 arrested in large brawl at Soroka hospital in Beersheba

19 people have been arrested over a massive brawl which broke out at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on Sunday.

Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba

Conjoined twins, separated in Israel last month, leave hospital

The operation the children underwent is extremely rare – having been performed only about 20 times – and now, for the first time in Israel.

 Dr. Mickey Gideon Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Soroka University Medical Center and one of the lead surgeons of the operation, with the twins.

Israeli first: Doctors separate heads of one-year-old conjoined twins

"This is a very rare operation, performed so far in the world only about 20 times and for the first time in Israel, on one-year-old babies."

THE FIRST face-to-face meeting of newly separated conjoined twins. The operation to separate them was completed at Soroka-University Medical Center in Beersheba last month.

A special-needs child inspires her parents to spread love, acceptance

Eden was born premature in the 33rd week. By the time she was four months old, the young couple fought with their health medical organization to have her more closely supervised. Something was wrong.

 A GIFT: Omer, Shoham and daughter Eden.

New hospital protocol reduces invasive medical procedures in children

The procedure has seen a 90% efficiency rate in detecting foreign items in the airways of children, and the number of bronchoscopies performed in 2020 significantly decreased from previous years.

r. Inbal Golan Tripto, a specialist in pediatric pulmonary medicine and Dr. Shani Pozilov, who specializes in pediatrics in the Second Department of Pediatrics at the Saban Center for Pediatrics in Soroka.

Caring for patients’ spirits: Chaplains heal emotionally ailing at Soroka

The chaplaincy program at Soroka is one of the first of its kind in Israel.

BORUCH SIRIS at Soroka Medical Center. He jokes, ‘I get to wear a doctor’s jacket even though I didn’t go to medical school.