Interesting comment: "Palestinian demands of treatment" - shouldnt the polite be "request for...." A society that is intent on destroying another still DEMANDS humanitarian aid from that very society they are bent on destroying? ABSURD!! They should spend more time buying surgical knives than stabbing knives and also learning how to use them properly - how about Saudi or any oil gulf states pitching in to help train doctors, nurses, medics etc or is that not financially possible for them?. As for payment: payment up front is the best policy when dealing with Arabs - they will stab you in the back with any kind of knife ...even the surgical one used to treat them.

Billions upon billions of dollars were poured into the PA over the past two decades and they don't have functional hospitals! Does anyone else see a problem here?

I have asked Herzliya Medical Center about the costs of a knee arthroscopic surgery, I need. They answered 12000 $, ten times more, than in Hungary.

people from Britain and other countries who stayed at the Apropo Hotel at Sheba Medical Center who were medical tourists. They had more confidence in Israeli hospitals and medical care than in British since there is a lot of hostility toward Jews in Britain and the E.U. They felt safer going to Jewish hospitals with Jewish medical staffs.

I was interested to read about medical tourism, unfortunately, this article was not about that, rather, yet one more article about the poor palestinians and vs bad Israelis. Surely, a good editor could have come up with a better headline.

What I've read is that the PA is behind on payments even to Palestinian hospitals. So why assume they're paying their bills to Israeli hospitals? (First priority seems to be paying their "security" personnel, as well as salaries for security prisoners.) Apropos, given the thousands of Palestinians treated in Israel, the NIS 50 million bill for 2010 (and NIS 33 million for 2011) seems rather small. It appears lots of them are being treated for little or nothing.

Isn't it strange: In Israel we have Arabs- in PA the same people are called Palestinians. Israeli Arabs Pay for themselves- Arabs from PA pay their bills with aid money from relief organizations. All other forms of payment are delayed or redirected. I would like to see the real percentage of the medical bills that being payed by PA's health budgets and medical insurance funds.

Maybe the Israeli doctors are ten fold better than the Hungarian Doctors,before they were killed by the Germans and their Hungarian helpers,the Hungarian Jewish Doctors excelled in their field,but the Doctors of today in Hungary are the products of the soviet medical schools,in the soviet union,shoe makers earned more than Doctors,this tells you somthing about the medical standart in the soviet block.

USD 15 million for thousands of Arabs treated? Let's see, assuming only 1'000 treated last year (3 per day on average, I bet you the real figure is 1'000 times as much), that means USD 15'000 per treatment. That is what a few days of hospital care cost, and they would not come for simple things they could get at home from their family doctor. So my conclusion is, that the real cost is in hundreds of million, secretly paid by taxpayers while Israeli patients are placed in corridors, and families have to bring them food like in a Romanian prison. shame

our hospitals are crowded regardless of the money, and why are we treating Pals who will turn around and kill us? I agree with number 2 about the aid money. #8 I dont know anything about Hungarian doctors, but I have been to some very good doctors from the former USSR here in Israel. They are very smart people and often know how to do more with less, since they didnt always have the equipment and drugs that are available here. Lastic eye surgery and better catarac operations were invented by a Soviet opthamologist.

the story is not exactly true. We treat all patients in Israeli hospitals. reagardless of their nationality or medical insurance. if they are are refugees from Sudan we never see any money and if they are from the Palastenian Authority we sometimes get it back and somtimes not. the reason medical tourists pay more for their medical srvices in Israel compared to an Israeli citizen is becuase the citizens pay for it through their taxes.

to #11.. not true about the insurance. its $ up front. 1,500 to determine if my sister was a candidate for heart stem cells and 30,000 to do the procedure if she was. didn't have the $, didn't get treated.

to #11. not true. year 2000 presented with dehydration, vomitting, nausea. caught virus at childrens' home where volunteering. very dangerous for someone with ileosotomy and diabetes. taken by taxi to bikur cholim in jerusalem. sent away 3 times. blue cross/blue shield not accepted. $200 plus passport to get into ER. Minister of Heath and US Consulate contacted. NO help. hotel doctor worked hard to get me to point where i could get out of the country and i did.