全新卫生部数据显示，手术和核磁共振成像（MRI）的等待时间在不同医院和医疗基金之间存在显著差异。然而，以色列在全球范围内表现良好，等待时间比大多数经合组织国家更短，并且尽管MRI设备数量较少，其效率却很高。

根据周二卫生部首次公布的新数据，对于同一种医疗问题和完全相同的治疗程序，孩子在索罗卡医疗中心（Soroka Medical Center）可能需要等待长达四个月（129天）。这些数据涵盖了2024年28家公立医院19种择期手术的等待时间。数据显示，几乎所有类型的 But for the exact same procedure, with the same medical problem, 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.手术在各医院之间存在极端差异，同时，不同医疗基金在MRI扫描等待时间上也存在巨大差距。在哈埃梅克医疗中心（HaEmek Medical Center），一名儿童的等待时间也相当长，为130天。在切除前列腺手术方面，卡梅尔医疗中心（Carmel Medical Center）的中位等待时间为104天，而沙米尔医疗中心（Shamir Medical Center）为18天，加利利医疗中心（Galilee Medical Center）为28天。