Israel’s Sheba Medical Center Turns 70
The Sheba Medical Center in Israel is celebrating its 70th anniversary and it takes pride in being an oasis of peace in a region filled with violence and turbulence.
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It was originally established as the country’s first military hospital back in 1948 in order to treat soldiers who fought in Israel’s War of Independence (The First Arab–Israeli War) against a coalition of neighboring Arab states.
It was first called the Tel Hashomer Hospital but it was later renamed the Sheba Medical Center after the hospital’s late director-general who died in 1971.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister and the state’s primary founder selected Dr. Chaim Sheba, the first surgeon general of the IDF to take charge of the hospital. It later became a civilian facility and it became a hub for medical innovation and humanitarian outreach in the Middle East.
Dr. Sheba served as the hospital’s director-general for 33 years. He transformed
the 150 acre medical area from a group of old army barracks with 650 beds, into a 200 acre modern campus housing nearly 2,000 beds.
It has over 8,500 hospital personnel that tend to over 1 million patients a year. This makes it Israel’s largest hospital.
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