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Rehabilitation in Israel: Rebuilding Life

reintegrate into everyday life. Each year, Reuth TLV Rehabilitation Hospital helps thousands of Israelis regain optimal function and quality of life. Its rehabilitation process involves a multidisciplinary team providing complete care to patients and families, including specialists in rehabilitation medicine, nursing, allied health therapies, mental health, and social work. Their shared mission: to restore independence and hope. The hospital’s teams treat Israel’s most complex cases including victims of traffic accidents, stroke patients, those requiring respiratory rehabilitation and long-term ventilation, and people with severe brain injuries. The hospital includes 355 beds as well as Israel’s largest center of outpatient rehabilitation clinics and day programs. At this moment in Israel’s history, rehabilitation has become more critical than ever. Increased life expectancy brings with it rising rates of stroke, falls, joint replacement surgeries, and chronic illness. Alongside this, a new generation of young soldiers and civilians - injured on October 7th and the subsequent war -require long and intensive physical and psychological rehabilitation. In response to these challenges, Reuth is now planning a new rehabilitation campus, which will be the largest of its kind in Israel. The hospital is slated for construction near the Tel Aviv seafront, at the former site of the Sde Dov airport, and is expected to open by 2032. The vision is transformative: expanded inpatient and day hospital services, advanced clinics, a trauma center, hydrotherapy, sports medicine, imaging, and an innovation and research hub. This new campus will establish Reuth as a national center of excellence in rehabilitation, a place where patients like A., and 10,000 more, take step after step on their journey to rebuild life.

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his quality of life. One of the most important things for him was simply knowing he was not alone. “When you come to the center, you know there’s someone who cares about you.” A.’s journey is one among many. Since October 7th, Israel’s healthcare system has faced an unprecedented challenge: thousands of people wounded in body and soul, with needs and hardships on a scale the country has never seen before. These figures reveal a national emergency: in today’s Israel, rehabilitation is a vital lifeline. For decades, Israel has excelled in saving lives. Its trauma units, surgeons, and emergency teams are among the best in the world. But survival is only the first step. Without rehabilitation - physical and emotional - many cannot return to functional independence or The vision is transformative: expanded inpatient and day hospital services, advanced clinics, a trauma center, hydrotherapy, sports medicine, imaging, and an innovation and research hub

When A., a 20-year-old soldier, was injured during his service in the Iron Swords War, he thought physical recovery would be the hardest part, until he began coping with symptoms of post-trauma: flashbacks, sleepless nights, and a growing sense of loneliness and detachment. “I felt like I wasn’t myself anymore, like I didn’t recognize who I was,” he recalls. At the Trauma Center at Reuth TLV Rehabilitation Hospital, A. began his journey of change. Through a personalized program that combines body, mind, and spirit - including psychological and psychiatric care, rehabilitation medicine, physiotherapy, acupuncture, occupational therapy, biofeedback, horticultural therapy, and music therapy - he regained physical and emotional function and improved

For more information go to www.reuth.org.il or email reuth@reuth.org.il

Photo: Ziv Koren