Best Israeli Doctors from Forbes 2025

As every year, we are pleased to introduce the doctors we collaborate with who have been included in the prestigious list published by the reputable Forbes magazine.

This year Forbes upgraded its selection process, including a new secure online platform that lets doctors take part in verified peer review. The team also visited medical centers across the country and met with senior healthcare leaders to improve accuracy and coverage.

Forbes explains that there are no public “objective” performance metrics for doctors, and patient reviews usually can’t measure medical quality. So the list is built mainly on peer recommendations—doctors recommending doctors they would trust for their own family.

To reduce bias, Forbes limits how many colleagues someone can recommend from the same institution, gives more weight to cross-institution recommendations, expands the pool of surveyed doctors, and uses data tools to detect coordinated “campaigns.” After the list is finalized, Forbes fact-checks doctor details with medical centers.

Source of doctors’ list – https://forbes.co.il/forbes-best-doctors-2025/

Best Israeli Doctors according to Forbes 2025. Online Consultation

Oncology Doctors Forbes 2025

• Dr. Rafael Pfeffer
• Prof. Ofer Merimsky
• Prof. Ella Evron
• Prof. Rinath Yerushalmi Mashali
• Dr. Esther Tachover
• Prof. Meirav Ben David
• Prof. Rahamim (“Rami”) Ben Yosef
• Dr. Iris Granot

• Prof. Yair Bar
• Dr. Jacob Lawrence
• Prof. Zvi Symon
• Dr. Damien Urban
• Prof. Raanan Berger
• Dr. Eitan Ben Ami
• Dr. Ronie Shapira-Frommer
• Dr. Einat Shaham-Shmueli

Hematologists Forbes 2025

• Prof. Galia Spector

Cardiologists and Cardiac Surgeons Forbes 2025

• Dr. Sorel Goland
• Prof. Yaakov Henkin
• Prof. Alexander Shagi
• Dr. Rafael Hirsch
• Prof. Victor Guetta
• Prof. Micha Feinberg
• Prof. Haim Yosefy
• Prof. David Luria
• Prof. Mordechai Vaturi
• Prof. Carlos Kafri
• Prof. Mordechai Haim
• Prof. Amir Halkin
• Prof. Shlomi Matetzky
• Dr. Yaron Shapira
• Prof. Ian Topilsky
• Prof. Eyal Nof

• Dr. Shagit Ben Zikri
• Dr. Limor Ilan Boushary
• Prof. Roy Beinart
• Prof. Roi Bigel
• Prof. Avishai Grupper
• Dr. Ehud Hurin
• Prof. Dan Haim Gilon
• Prof. Rafael Rosso
• Prof. Paul Pepper
• Prof. Michael Arad
• Dr. Shagit Ben Zikri
• Prof. Yael Peled
• Prof. Eyal Nof
• Prof. Dov Freimark
• Prof. Amit Segev
• Dr. Rafael Kuperstein

Thoracic Surgeons Forbes 2025

• Dr. Milton Saute
• Prof. Dan Aravot
• Prof. Leonid Sternik
• Prof. Ehud Raanani
• Dr. Ron Brauner

• Prof. Ghil Bolotin
• Prof. Erez Sharoni
• Prof. Yanai Ben-Gal
• Dr. David Mashali
• Dr. Yuri Peysakhovitz

Lung Specialists Forbes 2025

• Prof. Dror Har-Zahav
• Prof. Amir On
• Dr. Michael (“Mike”) Segal
• Prof. Sergey Spector
• Prof. Zvi Cohen
• Dr. Andrew Kenner
• Dr. Margalit Nevo
• Prof. Mordechai Kramer
• Prof. Ayal Yitzhaki

• Dr. Eli Ashkenazi
• Prof. Shagi Har-Nof
• Prof. Ran Harel
• Dr. Roberto Spiegelman
• Prof. Zvi Lider
• Dr. Yoram Klein
• Prof. Tehila Mans
• Prof. Eitan Mor

Urologists Forbes 2025

• Prof. Yuval Frifeld
• Prof. Amnon Zisman
• Dr. Menachem Laufer
• Prof. Shai Golan
• Dr. Itay Sagi
• Prof. Ran Katz
• Dr. Ohad Shoshani
• Prof. Mario Sofer
• Dr. Boris Friedman
• Prof. Yaakov Beniel
• Dr. Uri Gur
• Prof. David Lifshitz
• Dr. Nir Kleinman
• Prof. Ronen Raviv Gil
• Dr. Barak Rosenzweig
• Prof. Zohar Dotan
• Dr. Eli Tevdi

• Prof. David Margel
• Dr. Yair Braz
• Prof. Amos Ne’eman
• Dr. Yaniv Shilo
• Dr. Avi Berry
• Dr. Andrei Nadu
• Prof. Dr. Yehezkel Landau
• Dr. Harry Winkler
• Prof. Dr. Roy Manu
• Prof. Dr. Yaakov Stav
• Dr. Yoram Dekel
• Dr. Dana Segev Livne
• Prof. Dr. Eliyahu Gilad Amiel
• Prof. Dorit Zilberman
• Dr. Noam Kitrey

Neurosurgeons Forbes 2025

• Dr. Ran Harel
• Dr. Zvi Cohen

Orthopedic Specialists Forbes 2025

• Dr. Gregory Gilad Leibshits
• Prof. Shmuel Dekel
• Dr. Ron Arbel
• Prof. Gabriel Agar
• Dr. Zvi Cohen
• Dr. Amir Korengrin
• Dr. Eitan Segev
• Dr. Elhanan Luger
• Dr. Ofer Rak
• Dr. Vadim Bankowitz
• Dr. Ilya Pikarsky
• Dr. Daniel Levin
• Dr. Shmuel Israeli
• Dr. Boaz Lieberman
• Dr. Yaron Bar Ziv
• Dr. Bezalel Peskin
• Dr. Gideon Burstein
• Dr. Aviram Gold
• Prof. Yoram Ankstein
• Dr. Alon Friedlander
• Prof. Ronen Debi
• Dr. Nathan Brook
• Dr. Eran Dolev Damscheck
• Dr. Oren Ben Lulu
• Dr. Yair Gortsak
• Dr. Sergey Salman

• Dr. Moti Kramer
• Prof. Ehud Atun
• Dr. Shlomo Blum
• Dr. Shai Shemesh
• Dr. Dror Lindner
• Dr. Omri Lubowski
• Dr. Il Barbelek
• Dr. Israel Weiss
• Prof. Michael Drexler
• Dr. Yaron Berkowitz
• Dr. Ran Tein (Sports Medicine)
• Dr. Elias Haddad
• Prof. Shai Tanenbaum
• Dr. Ron Lamdan
• Dr. Mohammed Khatib
• Prof. Mark Eidelman
• Dr. Haim Katzman
• Dr. Alexei Robitzky
• Prof. Ehud Rat
• Dr. Ariel Oren
• Dr. Yonah Yaniv
• Dr. Ram Palti
• Dr. Avidov Lieberman
• Dr. Amir Arami

ENT Specialists (Otolaryngology) Forbes 2025

• Dr. Sabri El Sayed
• Prof. Daniel Kaplan
• Dr. Naomi Rabinovitz
• Prof. Avi Hefetz
• Dr. Uri Elkan
• Prof. Oded Cohen
• Dr. Ariel Margolis
• Prof. Dr. Eitan Soudri
• Dr. Natan Shlemkovitz
• Dr. Yael Gross Garti
• Prof. Benny Negris
• Dr. Firas Kassem
• Dr. Meirav Sokolov-Lasmanovitz
• Prof. Yehoshua Ben Zion
• Dr. Rani Abu Eita
• Prof. Ilana Duek
• Dr. David Ulanovsky
• Prof. Gideon Bachar
• Dr. Limor Mualem-Klamovich

• Dr. Adi Primov
• Dr. Eyal Rosenzweig
• Prof. Roy Landsberg
• Dr. Arkadi Yakirevich
• Dr. Noga Tyer Lifshitz
• Prof. Dr. Eyal Reuveh
• Prof. Dr. Tomas Spitzer
• Dr. Meir Verman
• Dr. Avraham Abragel
• Dr. Uri Peleg
• Prof. Dr. Yonatan Lahav
• Prof. Dr. Eran Alon
• Dr. Yesgav Shapira
• Dr. Yael Glitz Shapira
• Dr. Shai Duvdevani
• Dr. David Rakhima

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons Forbes 2025

• Dr. Michael Alterman
• Prof. Samer Srouji
• Dr. Dror Alon
• Dr. Wasim Aboud
• Dr. Adir Cohen
• Prof. Oded Nahlieli

• Dr. Dvora Schwartz-Arad
• Dr. Ran Yahalom
• Prof. Noam Yarom (Oral Medicine)
• Dr. Yitzhak Shoshani (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery)
• Dr. Silvina Friedland-Bernbaum (Oral Medicine)
• Dr. Yulian Sela (Periodontics)

Medical Genetics Forbes 2025

• Dr. Baruch Feldman
• Prof. Eitan Friedman

Gynecology Doctors Forbes 2025

• Prof. Ariel Horovitz
• Dr. Liron Kogan
• Prof. Daniel Zeidman
• Dr. David Danon
• Prof. Ilan Baruchim
• Prof. Aviad Cohen
• Dr. Yonon Hazan
• Prof. Talya Levy
• Dr. Gadi Ben Shitrit
• Prof. Ariel Weisman
• Dr. Ranit Almog
• Prof. Michael Kupferminc
• Prof. Amnon Amit
• Dr. Yuval Kaufman
• Prof. Dan Grisaru
• Dr. Dovid Stokheim
• Prof. Yoav Yinon
• Prof. Shai Mazaki-Tovi
• Dr. Ron Shinman
• Prof. Boaz Weiss
• Dr. Gabi Haran
• Prof. Raul Orvieto
• Prof. Shelly Grutz
• Prof. Rely Hershkovitz
• Dr. Micha Baum
• Prof. Fuad Azzam
• Prof. Yuval Yaron
• Dr. Anna Padua

• Prof. Roi Mashiach
• Prof. Igal Sivan
• Dr. Yosef Har-Tov
• Prof. Yaakov Bornstein
• Prof. Eil Schiff
• Prof. Shlomo Lipitz
• Prof. David Soriano
• Prof. Ariel Weiss
• Dr. Lyudmila Ostrovsky
• Prof. Amitai Eitan Ram
• Prof. Yaron Tzalael
• Dr. Ury Ehrlich
• Prof. Yaakov Korach
• Prof. Lior Lavenstein
• Prof. Alon Shrim
• Dr. Elad Berkowitz
• Prof. Moti Goldenberg
• Dr. Amnon (Butchen)
• Dr. Reuven Keidar
• Dr. Ruth Geist
• Dr. Baruch Feldman
• Dr. David Stokheim
• Dr. Yael Harel
• Prof. Shelly Mazaki-Tovi
• Dr. Eran Kassif
• Dr. Elias Castel

Vascular Surgery Specialists Forbes 2025

• Dr. Moshe Halak

Gastroenterologists Forbes 2025

• Prof. Ram Dickman
• Dr. Eran Zaytan
• Dr. Adam Philips
• Prof. Efrat Broida
• Dr. Alaa Milhem
• Dr. Roi Dekel
• Prof. Shomron Ben-Horin
• Dr. Erez Skapa
• Prof. Ron Shaul
• Dr. Alex Geller
• Dr. Tiberio Hershkovitz

• Prof. Freddy Konikoff
• Dr. Maor Lahav
• Prof. Sigal Fishman
• Dr. Amir Ben Tov
• Dr. Eyal Hirsch
• Dr. Mati Schnell
• Prof. Uri Kopylov
• Dr. Ehud Zigmond
• Prof. Rami (Avraham) Eliakim
• Dr. Alon Lang

General Surgery Specialists Forbes 2025

• Prof. Ron Carmeli
• Dr. Ian White
• Prof. Samuel Avital
• Dr. Asnat Raziel
• Prof. Oded Zamora
• Dr. Ayelet (Eliad) Karin
• Prof. Mordechai Gutman
• Dr. Eytan Karmon
• Prof. Guy Lahav
• Dr. Barak Bar-Zakai
• Prof. Dov Zipel
• Dr. Gideon Sroka
• Prof. Nasser Sakran
• Dr. Shimon Sapoz’nikov
• Prof. Danny Rozin
• Dr. Eviatar Nesher
• Prof. Amir Sold
• Dr. Yehuda Kriv
• Dr. Asya Brodsky
• Prof. Riad Haddad
• Dr. Michael Gurevitz
• Prof. Mordechai Shimonov
• Prof. David Goitein
• Dr. Boaz Shagai
• Prof. Dan Hershko
• Dr. Ilya Kakiashvili
• Dr. Ildar Shay Maron
• Prof. Igor Sukhotnik
• Dr. Michael Kurtz
• Dr. Anya Feigin

• Prof. Aviram Nissan
• Dr. Ilya Kakiashvili
• Prof. David Hazan
• Dr. Aadel Abu Saleh
• Prof. Osama Abu Khatum
• Dr. Igoz Manovich
• Dr. Oz Yakir Ezra
• Dr. Ilan Kapuler Vadim
• Prof. Naftali Freud
• Dr. Hagai Kamer
• Prof. Hagit Tolchinsky
• Dr. Ilan Menoskin Yuri
• Dr. Ildar Shay Maron
• Dr. Asnat Zamora
• Prof. Andrey Keidar
• Dr. Moshe Halak
• Dr. Dragan Krbrushets
• Prof. Gabriel Sandro
• Prof. Hanoch Kashtan
• Dr. Antonio Reina
• Dr. Iido Nahmani
• Dr. Yuri Goldes
• Dr. Vadim Kapuler

Neurologists Forbes 2025

• Dr. David Orion
• Dr. Dror Kraus
• Dr. Ilan Goldberg
• Prof. Gal Ifergan
• Dr. Amir Dori
• Prof. Sharon Hassin

Dermatology Specialists Forbes 2025

• Dr. Ronen Alkalay
• Prof. Lev Pavlovsky
• Dr. Hagit Metz
• Prof. Yosef Alcalay

Rheumatologists Forbes 2025

• Prof. Merav Lider
• Prof. Howard Amital

Diagnostic Radiology Specialists Forbes 2025