Prof. Yitzhak Kreiss to temporarily serve as Director-General of Health Ministry while managing Sheba

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Health Minister Haim Katz has asked Prof. Yitzhak Kreiss, director of the Sheba Medical Center, to temporarily fill the post of Director-General of the Health Ministry. Kreiss will enter the role at the end of the month, when Moshe Bar Siman Tov leaves the post. He will also continue to manage the Sheba hospital.

Kreiss agreed to the request, so his temporary appointment will begin at the end of the month and run in parallel with his role at Sheba. Sheba is the largest government hospital in Israel and is subject to supervision by the Health Ministry. In the minister's office it was said: "The health system needs an anchor of stability."

Kreiss has served as director of Sheba since 2016. He is a specialist physician in internal medicine and medical administration, a professor of medicine at Tel Aviv University, and an adjunct professor at the Hebrew University. He also served as the chief medical officer of the Israel Defense Forces.