{"id":769001,"date":"2026-09-13T04:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769001\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T04:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:36:41","slug":"at-least-1360-doctors-leave-israel-since-2023-in-healthcare-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769001\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 1,360 doctors leave Israel since 2023 in healthcare brain drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 1,360 doctors have left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/countries\/israel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel <\/a>since 2023, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>The number, equivalent to an entire hospital, refers to those doctors who left the country for a period of at least 12 months between 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers recorded 416 departures in 2023, 530 in 2024, and what they said was an initial estimate of 419 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Itai Ater, one of the professors who carried out the study, wrote that the country had been &#8220;losing its best people&#8221; since 2023, the year that Israel began its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/topics\/israel-genocide-gaza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">genocide<\/a> in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us have family members waiting for surgery or other medical care,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The departure of nearly 1,400 doctors translates directly into longer wait times, less effective medical care, and ultimately severe harm to our quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch<\/p>\n<p>        Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on<br \/>\n      Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters<\/p>\n<p>The report said rates were particularly high among paediatricians, ophthalmologists, dermatologists, and ear, nose and throat specialists.<\/p>\n<p>No explicit link was drawn in the report between the political circumstances in Israel and the loss of doctors.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ater warned that the exodus was harming the country.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s genocide has frozen a generation of Gaza&#8217;s young doctors<\/p>\n<p>Shoug Mukhaimar<\/p>\n<p>  <a class=\"mee-readmore-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/israels-genocide-has-frozen-generation-gazas-young-doctors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this trend continues, heaven forbid, there is growing concern of irreversible damage to Israel\u2019s resilience,\u201d Ater said.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics has reported that at least 1,701 health sector workers were killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza between October 2023 and October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eupac.org\/over-1150-health-professionals-call-for-boycott-of-israeli-medical-association\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more <\/a>than 1,150 health professionals and organisations worldwide signed a petition calling for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), accusing it of failing to uphold medical ethics over the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign called for the IMA to be suspended from the World Medical Association (WMA).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 1,360 doctors have left Israel since 2023, according to new research. The number, equivalent to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}