The Shaare Zedek Medical Center (Hebrew: מרכז רפואי שערי צדק, romanized: Merkaz Refu'i Sha'arei Tzedek, lit.

[citation needed] After the Ottoman Turks gave permission in the 1890s, and with funding from European donors, the hospital was built on Jaffa Road, two miles (3 km) outside the Old City.

[1] The hospital treats over 600,000 patients per year in more than 30 inpatient departments and over 70 outpatient units and maintains a very active academic service as a leading research and teaching institution.

Shaare Zedek is classified as a public/private hospital, serving as a non-profit institution and dependent on donor support for capital development, while offering medical care for the wider Jerusalem-area community.

The main campus is located on an 11.5-acre (47,000 m2) site between the neighborhoods of Bayit VeGan in the south and Ramat Beit HaKerem in the north, east of Mount Herzl in southwest Jerusalem.

As terrorist attacks in Jerusalem reached a peak in 2001–04, Shaare Zedek treated more victims than any other hospital in Israel.

In early 2014, Shaare Zedek opened the first phase of The Next Generation Building, a comprehensive response to medical care for children from infancy through adolescence.

[5] The department includes separate units for the spine, arthroscopy, hand surgery, joint reconstruction, and foot and ankle care.

Shaare Zedek was the first hospital in Israel to develop fully integrated oncology and palliative medicine services in 1994.