Newsweek’s “Best Smart Hospitals 2026” ranking put Israel’s Sheba Medical Center in sixth place, a jump from ninth place last year and the sixth consecutive year it placed in the top 10.

The hospital is in good company, with such institutions as the Mayo Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital appearing alongside Sheba in the top 10.

The ranking is based on the extent to which hospitals incorporate technology in their practice, such as AI, robotics, telemedicine, digital imaging, and electronic medical records. The ranking is based on recommendations from health care experts, questionnaires on technology implementation, and Joint Commission International accreditation.

Sheba’s Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate (ARC) innovation center is largely responsible for the hospital’s outstanding performance. A $27 million investment into the center boosts its ability to work with OpenAI and to conduct research combining AI and genomics with Mount Sinai and NVIDIA.

Israeli hospitals have made the news for incredible feats of medical prowess in recent months. Earlier this month, Soroka Medical Center, part of Clalit Health Services in Beersheba, released a documentary showing never-before-released footage of Oct. 7 victims streaming toward the hospital and being treated. That day, the medical center treated an astonishing 674 patients. The hospital, located in the largest city in Israel’s south, took the lead in treating the victims of the horrific massacre, treating hundreds of patients in one day, an unprecedented amount of care by any standards.

In April, Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva carried out four organ transplants, one after the other, in a single day, saving four young lives. A two-year-old received a kidney, a three-year-old received a heart, a nine-year-old received a liver, and an 18-year-old received a kidney.

Schneider Children’s Medical Center is one of the few hospitals in the world equipped to carry out multiple organ transplants in one day, an operation that requires a high level of coordination among various teams, such as the anesthesia unit, the nursing team, the transplant surgeons and others.