根据以色列卫生部最新公布的数据，该国在手术和核磁共振成像（MRI）的等待时间方面，不同医院和医疗基金之间存在显著差异。尽管如此，总体而言，以色列在医疗服务效率上表现出色，其等待时间普遍短于大多数经济合作与发展组织（OECD）国家。此外，尽管MRI设备的数量相对较少，但其利用效率却很高。

数据显示，在某些情况下，患者为接受完全相同的治疗，并且面临同样的健康问题，在索罗卡医疗中心（Soroka Medical Center）可能需要等待长达四个月，即129天。这些数据由卫生部于周二首次发布，涵盖了2024年28家公立医院的19种择期手术的等待时间。报告揭示，几乎所有类型的 But the child will wait about four months (129 days) at Soroka Medical Center. The figures come from new data published Tuesday for the first time by the Health Ministry, revealing waiting times for 19 types of elective surgeries at 28 public hospitals in 2024. The data expose extreme disparities between hospitals in nearly every type of surgery, as well as a major gap between health funds in waiting times for MRI scans. A long wait was also recorded at HaEmek Medical Center, where a child would wait 130 days. In prostate removal surgery, the median wait at Carmel was 104 days, compared with 18 days at Shamir Medical Center and 28 days at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.