Soroka Medical Center Begins Rebuilding After 2025 Iranian Missile Strike Destroyed Wards and Operating Rooms

An Iranian ballistic missile struck Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on June 19, 2025, destroying wards, treatment rooms, operating rooms, and laboratories and eliminating 144 inpatient beds. The building had been evacuated the day before, and no casualties occurred.

Yarden Nevo, deputy director general of Soroka Medical Center and head of its administration, said the ophthalmology department was completely destroyed and more than 30 percent of operating rooms were lost.

The area directly affected underwent controlled demolition. 3 billion from Clalit Health Services, the state treasury, and external donors. Sylvan Adams pledged $100 million toward the effort.

Nevo said the hospital is in advanced planning stages for a new inpatient tower of about 70,000 square meters that will contain roughly 500 beds along with operating rooms, brain and cardiac catheterization units, a brain center, a heart center, a dialysis institute, and an underground parking facility that can serve as an emergency hospital.

The district planning committee approved the building plan in recent weeks, and construction is expected to take about seven years. Twenty-five inpatient beds from the rehabilitation department were placed in a building outside the medical center after the strike, and the entire department was later moved there.

Some operating room activities were transferred to the new Assuta hospital in Beersheba. During the recent conflict with Iran, about 300 patients were discharged from Soroka Medical Center. The hospital will inaugurate four projects in the coming year, including an expansion of the emergency department and trauma room that will open soon.