Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh): A Growing Hospital in a Challenging Era.As the fourth-largest government hospital in Israel, Shamir Medical Center provides over 1 million residents in Israel's central region with state-of-the-art medical care and services. Serving an economically and socially diverse community, we are proud to be the medical 'home base' for the cultural mosaic that is Israel, administrating care to Jews, Muslims and Christians, religious and secular communities, low and middle-income families and veterans as well as immigrants from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union. At the heart of our approach is the personalized care we deliver to all of our patients and their families and an unwavering commitment to the community we serve.