BEERSHEBA — An Iranian ballistic missile struck Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on June 19, 2025. The hospital building was evacuated of patients one day before the strike. No casualties resulted from the attack, which destroyed more than 30% of the facility's operating rooms and 144 inpatient beds.

The area directly affected by the missile underwent controlled demolition. Immediate repair work was carried out throughout the hospital, including infrastructure and essential systems, and departments in the internal medicine building were completely renovated. Some operating room activities were transferred to the new Assuta hospital in Beersheba, while 25 inpatient beds and the entire rehabilitation department were moved outside Soroka. About 300 patients were discharged home or to other facilities during the recent conflict with Iran.

Soroka Medical Center is in the advanced planning stages for reconstruction, with estimated funding of NIS 1.3 billion. Funding sources include Clalit Health Services, the state treasury, and external donors. Sylvan Adams pledged $100 million toward the reconstruction efforts. Deputy Director General Yarden Nevo said, "The damage significantly reduced the scope of our operations; more than 30% of operating rooms were destroyed, but we quickly resumed operations."

The district planning committee approved the building plan for a new inpatient tower in recent weeks. Nevo said, "It will include inpatient wards, operating rooms, brain catheterization and cardiac catheterization units, a brain center, a heart center, a dialysis institute, and an underground parking facility that will serve as an emergency hospital when needed." The tower is planned to be approximately 70,000 square meters and is expected to contain about 500 inpatient beds.

Construction of the new inpatient tower is expected to take about seven years. Four projects are scheduled to be inaugurated at the medical center in the coming year, including an expansion of the emergency department and trauma room. Three new buildings are planned for the hospital's northern campus: a protected neonatal intensive care unit, a research building, and a rehabilitation building that will include pediatric rehabilitation. Rebuilding of the northern operating rooms has recently begun. Planning is underway for adding two floors to the southern inpatient complex and for a new protected building called the Rebirth Building.