Husidman Family Donates 200 Million Shekels for Israel’s Largest Rehabilitation Hospital

The Husidman family’s donations foundation will contribute 200 million shekels to rebuild Reuth Rehabilitation Hospital in Sde Dov, Tel Aviv, and rename it the Husidman Rehabilitation Hospital. The new campus is expected to be completed in about six years and to become Israel’s largest rehabilitation hospital, marking a major expansion in rehabilitation and geriatric care. Reuth CEO Ido Shir told ynet that the project is “an important optimistic announcement” for Israel’s rehabilitation future.

The total project cost is about 390 million dollars, or 1.13 billion shekels. The Husidman donation is a key anchor for the project, which is being developed with the Tel Aviv Foundation and Reuth, while the rest of the funding is expected from municipal, government, and private sources. The hospital is in advanced talks with the Health and Finance ministries about state participation. This comes amid several major health system gifts in Israel, including 200 million dollars from WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum to Shaare Zedek, 180 million dollars from Anat and Shmuel Harlap to Beilinson, and 100 million dollars from Silvan Adams to Soroka, matched by a similar state allocation.

Reuth is a university rehabilitation hospital affiliated with Tel Aviv University’s Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and was founded 65 years ago in Tel Aviv’s Yad Eliyahu neighborhood with only 44 beds, originally serving chronic and nursing patients, many of them elderly Holocaust survivors. Shir said the old site has exhausted its development potential, has serious protection gaps, and is not suited to 21st-century needs. During the recent war, the hospital reduced occupancy and moved about 60 patients to a protected underground area at Sheba Medical Center.

The new campus, for which a lease was signed in February 2024, will have about 540 beds, up from roughly 356 today. It will include a trauma clinic, expanded day rehabilitation, advanced treatment spaces, imaging, a hydrotherapy pool, research and development facilities, green areas, and a nearby public housing building with about 250 apartments. Shir said the site offers a rare chance to build a hospital from scratch in Israel. Daniel Husidman, a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who heads Truper, has also funded major Israeli institutions, including cancer, science, and conference centers. Yigal Husidman said the family wants to honor wounded defenders of Israel and help them toward “healing, hope and new lives.”