Rambam Medical Center

Rambam Medical Centre is Israel's leading research-based academic hospital, located in Haifa and operating in conjunction with the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world's top technical universities and the workplace of three Nobel Prize laureates: Prof. Irwin Rose, Prof. Aaron Ciechanover, and Prof. Avram Hershko. Rambam's extraordinary achievements in medical science and practice have been recognised by the Israel Defence Forces, the United Nations, and US Navy forces stationed in the region — the hospital serves as Israel's primary trauma and mass-casualty readiness institution for northern Israel. Rambam is home to one of the most extraordinary medical facilities in the world: the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital — the world's only underground hospital capable of becoming fully operational in under 72 hours, providing 2,000 emergency beds protected from missile strikes. Key clinical specialties include Oncology and Cancer Research, Cardiac Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Organ Transplantation (kidney, liver, bone marrow), IVF and Reproductive Medicine, Urology, Gastroenterology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Haematology, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics. The hospital's clinical research division conducts cutting-edge trials in oncology, neurology, and regenerative medicine.