Leumit Health Services ( he, לאומית שירותי בריאות, ''Leumit Sherutey Bri'ut'', lit. ''National Health Care Services'', formerly ''Kupat Holim Leumit'', lit. ''National Sickness Fund'') is an Israeli health insurance and medical services organization, founded in 1933 by the

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Movement. As of 2020 it is the smallest of the four Kupot Holim (Israel's state-mandated health funds), and has over 700,000 members.

History

Kupat Holim Leumit was established in 1933 by physicians who had been dismissed from their work in the General Health Fund (

Clalit Clalit, ( he, שירותי בריאות כללית, General Health Services; previously – , General Sick Fund), is the largest of Israel's four state-mandated health service organizations, charged with administering health care services and fund ...

) following

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's murder. Dr. Vinshal opened the first clinic at his home in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

. In 1940 the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg wrote that the fund's function was "to educate and cure."

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added: "The

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

must be taught to be healthy even when they are ill". The uniqueness of the Leumit Health Fund lay in offering members the right to select the physician and medical service of their choice. The fund's first manager, Mr. Melamedowitz, declared that the fund would be open to everyone and patients would be treated as acquaintances, not numbers. Today Leumit Leumit operates more than 300 medical centers and 100 pharmacies nationwide.

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* * {{Authority control Health maintenance organizations Medical and health organizations based in Israel Organizations established in 1933 1933 establishments in Mandatory Palestine

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