Barzilai Medical Center

Barzilai Medical Center מרכז רפואי ברזילי‎ مركز برزيلاي الطبي
Barzilai Medical Center
Geography
Location	Ha-Histadrut, Ashkelon, Israel
Coordinates	31°39′43″N 34°33′35″E / 31.6619°N 34.5597°E / 31.6619; 34.5597
Organisation
Care system	Ministry of Health
Funding	Public hospital
Type	District General, Teaching
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	617
History
Former name(s)	Ashkelon Hospital
Opened	July 1961
Links
Website	bmc.gov.il/eng
Lists	Hospitals in Israel

Barzilai Medical Center (Hebrew: מרכז רפואי ברזילי, Merkaz Refu'i Barzilai; Arabic: مركز برزيلاي الطبي) is a 600-bed district general hospital in Ashkelon, Israel opened in 1961.^[1] The hospital serves a population of 500,000, including a large number of Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, and has more than 100,000 admissions annually.

The grounds contain the site of the former Shrine of Husayn's Head, a Shia pilgrimage site before its destruction by the Israeli Defense Forces under Moshe Dayan in 1950.