American Friends of Shamir Medical Center proudly supports one of Israel’s largest and most vital government hospitals, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh). Strategically located in central Israel, just minutes from Ben-Gurion International Airport, Shamir serves more than one million people from every walk of life. With one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country, Shamir stands on the front line of Israel’s medical and humanitarian response. In times of both crisis and calm, the hospital embodies the Jewish value of pikuachnefesh, the sacred duty to save life.
The Medical 'home base' for the Cultural Mosaic that is Israel
Shamir Hospital's Claim to Fame
Our not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 organization was established in 1983 to raise money for one of the largest hospitals in Israel. Although little known in the United States, Shamir Medical Center is the fourth-largest government hospital in Israel, it provides over 1 million residents in Israel’s central region with state-of-the-art medical care and services.
The National Academy for Surgery
The Institute Of Allergy Immunology & Pediatric Pulmonology
The Center for Translational Microbiome Research
The Obstetrics and Gynecology Division
The Orthopedic Division
One Of The World’s Largest Hyperbaric Medicine Centers
GREAT PRACTICE MEANS GREAT HEALTH CARE
Shamir in numbers
Dynamically target high-payoff intellectual capital for customized technologies.
Objectively integrate emerging core competencies.
8,245
Progressively maintain extensive
infomediaries via extensible
niches.
90%
Yearly occupancy growth rate at the hospital
151,871
Patients passed through our emergency department
484,686
Patients were seen in our consultative out-patient clinics
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