Clalit's Petah Tikva tertiary flagship (Rabin Medical Center) and Israel's #1 transplant center. Top-tier in the hospitals Answer Index — everywhere, first nowhere. Not medical advice.
Clalit-owned · Hospital / Medical Center · Petah Tikva · A leading Israeli tertiary hospital
Beilinson Hospital is the main campus of Rabin Medical Center, a Clalit-owned tertiary hospital in Petah Tikva that runs Israel's number-one organ-transplant program — and in the Olam Answer Index it sits in the top tier of AI answers about Israeli hospitals without ever ranking first. This profile is an AI-visibility and institutional overview and is not medical advice.
Organization snapshot
| Type | Public tertiary hospital (campus of Rabin Medical Center) |
| Founded | 1936 (Beilinson Hospital); merged into Rabin Medical Center in January 1996 (Clalit) |
| Part of | Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson + Golda-HaSharon campuses) |
| Owner / operator | Clalit Health Services — Israel's largest HMO |
| Location | Jabotinsky St, Petah Tikva, Israel |
| Beds | Beilinson grew from a 70-bed hospital to a tertiary center with more than 1,000 beds; Rabin Medical Center totals roughly 1,300 (Clalit / Wikipedia) |
| Specialties | Organ transplantation, cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, nephrology and dialysis, neonatology, hematology, genetics |
| University affiliation | Tel Aviv University (Sackler Faculty of Medicine) |
| Known for | Israel's #1 transplant program — over 70% of the country's organ transplants annually (Clalit / Rabin Medical Center) |
The Founding
Beilinson Hospital opened in 1936, established to serve the agricultural settlements around Petah Tikva during the pre-state period (Clalit / Wikipedia). It was an early pillar of the Clalit (Kupat Holim) health system, and its firsts read like a timeline of Israeli medicine: the nation's first blood bank in 1938, and pioneering nephrology and dialysis services in the decades that followed. Beilinson physicians were among the initiators of the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, anchoring the hospital's role as a teaching and research institution. In January 1996 Beilinson was merged with the neighboring Golda-HaSharon hospital to form Rabin Medical Center, named for the assassinated prime minister; Beilinson remains the larger, tertiary campus.
What Beilinson Does Today
Beilinson operates as a full tertiary referral center — the level of hospital that handles the most complex cases other facilities send onward. Its defining distinction is transplantation: Rabin Medical Center runs what its own Clalit department describes as "the number one transplantation program in Israel, performing over 70% of the organ transplants annually," across kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas and small intestine (Clalit / Rabin Medical Center). The center reports on the order of 230 kidney and 50 liver transplants a year and more than 5,000 organ transplants performed historically. That leadership is built on a long record of firsts — Israel's first heart transplant in 1968 and its first artificial heart implantation in 1995 among them. Around the transplant core sit strong cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, nephrology, neonatology and genetics services.
Market Position
Beilinson belongs to the small group of Israeli tertiary flagships that dominate complex-care referrals. It is most often benchmarked against Sheba at Tel HaShomer — the country's largest single hospital — and Tel Aviv's Ichilov (Tel Aviv Sourasky), alongside Hadassah in Jerusalem and the private Assuta network. Within that peer set, Beilinson's clearest differentiator is transplantation scale: where competitors lead on size or research breadth, Rabin Medical Center concentrates the majority of Israel's organ-transplant volume, giving it a defensible category claim that is hard for rivals to contest.
Inside the Clalit System
Beilinson is owned and operated by Clalit, Israel's largest health maintenance organization, which both insures roughly half the population and runs a nationwide hospital network. That vertical integration matters: as a Clalit-owned tertiary center, Beilinson serves as the high-acuity apex for Clalit members referred up from community clinics and smaller hospitals, and its transplant and cardiac programs function as system-wide resources rather than standalone assets.
Why Beilinson Ranks in the AI Answer
In the Olam Answer Index — Hospitals edition, Beilinson was present in 88% of prompts with a 14% citation share across five AI engines, yet was the #1 answer in none. The pattern is consistent: always in the top tier, never first. The engines reliably surface Beilinson when transplantation or Clalit tertiary care comes up, but default to larger or more research-branded names for the lead slot — a visibility gap that is about positioning and citable authority, not clinical standing.
Watch points
- Bed figures vary by source and by whether they count Beilinson alone or all of Rabin Medical Center — cite the scope explicitly.
- "Beilinson," "Rabin Medical Center" and "Beilinson-Rabin" are used interchangeably online, which fragments name recognition in AI answers.
- Transplant-volume claims should be attributed to Clalit/RMC and dated, as annual figures shift.
- Top-tier-but-never-first citation pattern suggests an authority and structured-data gap versus Sheba and Ichilov.
FAQ
What is Beilinson Hospital?
Beilinson is a public tertiary hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, founded in 1936 and today the main campus of Rabin Medical Center. It is one of Israel's largest hospitals and the country's leading organ-transplant center.
Who owns Beilinson?
Beilinson is owned and operated by Clalit Health Services, Israel's largest HMO.
Is Beilinson part of Rabin Medical Center?
Yes. In January 1996, Beilinson merged with the neighboring Golda-HaSharon hospital to form Rabin Medical Center. Beilinson is its larger, tertiary campus.
What is Beilinson known for?
It is best known for transplantation — Rabin Medical Center runs Israel's #1 transplant program, performing over 70% of the nation's organ transplants annually (Clalit / RMC) — plus strong cardiology, oncology and nephrology.
How does Beilinson compare to Sheba and Ichilov?
Beilinson sits in the same tertiary top tier as Sheba and Ichilov. Sheba is Israel's largest single hospital and Ichilov its central Tel Aviv flagship; Beilinson's edge is its dominant transplant volume.
בעברית
בית החולים בילינסון, שנוסד ב-1936, הוא הקמפוס המרכזי של המרכז הרפואי רבין בפתח תקווה, בבעלות שירותי בריאות כללית. זהו אחד מבתי החולים השלישוניים הגדולים בישראל ומרכז ההשתלות המוביל במדינה — לפי כללית, המרכז הרפואי רבין מבצע מעל 70% מהשתלות האיברים בישראל מדי שנה (כליה, כבד, לב, ריאה, לבלב ומעי דק). במדד התשובות של Olam — מהדורת בתי החולים, בילינסון הופיע ב-88% מהשאילתות עם נתח ציטוט של 14% בחמישה מנועי AI, אך לא היה התשובה מספר 1 באף אחת מהן: תמיד בשכבה העליונה, אף פעם לא ראשון. פרופיל זה הוא סקירה של נראות ומיצוב מוסדי ואינו מהווה ייעוץ רפואי. קראו את המדד המלא.
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