Shamir Medical Center , formerly Assaf Harofeh Medical Center , is a teaching hospital in Be'er Ya'akov , 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv , Israel .
5-725: The Medical Center was named after Asaph the Jew , author of the Oath of Asaph and an early medical text. The facility was established in 1918 as a military hospital of the British Army in the closing days of the First World War . It was located adjacent to the sprawling British military base in Tzrifin (Sarafand). After the creation of the State of Israel, it was converted to an Israeli hospital. The hospital
10-558: The Jew Asaph the Jew ( English: / ˈ eɪ . s æ f ˈ ð ə ˈ d ʒ u / Ay-saf , Hebrew : אסף היהודי Asaph HaYehudi ), also known as Asaph ben Berechiah and Asaph the Physician ( Hebrew : אסף הרופא Asaph HaRofè ) is a figure mentioned in the ancient Jewish medical text the Sefer Refuot (lit. “Book of Medicines”). Thought by some to have been a Byzantine Jew and
15-476: The earliest known Hebrew medical writer, he is however a rather uncertain figure who some have suggested is identifiable with the legendary mystical vizier Asif ibn Barkhiya of Arabian folklore, associated with King Solomon . Scholars in favor of Asaph’s historicity suggest that he might have lived somewhere between the 3rd and 7th Centuries CE, possibly in Byzantine Palaestina or Mesopotamia. However,
20-511: The text itself from which Asaph is known seems to place him between Hippocrates and Pedanius Dioscorides , which if chronological would imply that he might have been thought to have been between the 5th Century BCE and 1st Century CE, though this is very uncertain. The Sefer Refuot , the only known historical Jewish text to mention Asaph (and which he may have written or contributed to), is the earliest known Hebrew medical work, and thus of great historical significance. The "Oath of Asaph" found in
25-737: Was renamed after the former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir in April 2017. It is one of Israel's largest hospitals, with over 800 beds. It serves over 370,000 people in Israel's Central District . As a teaching facility, the hospital is part of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University . On its grounds are the first and largest Israeli academic nursing school and the oldest Israeli school of physiotherapy . 31°57′59.76″N 34°50′23.21″E / 31.9666000°N 34.8397806°E / 31.9666000; 34.8397806 Asaph
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