# Doctors Index Israel | אינדקס רופאים

> Search the Israeli Ministry physician-licence snapshot, explore source-backed hospital and practice profiles, and inspect editorial leading-doctor lists. Editorial prominence is not clinical quality.

Documentation updated: 2026-09-25. Public read-only edition. Custom-domain DNS and SSL are independently validated by the hosting provider. Files do not guarantee search indexing, LLM discovery or citation.

## Data coverage
- Ministry: complete supplied published snapshot exported 2026-09-24T17:57:04.090Z; 64,674 licence–specialty rows, 57,305 distinct licence numbers, 57,495 exact licence/name/date groups, 78 registered specialty names. Not a live or continuously updated register. Bulk current status is unknown.
- Enrichment: 30,884 candidate source groups; 5,945 hospital listings across seven hospitals; export generated 2026-09-25T06:51:03.054Z. Cross-source identity links remain unverified.
- Expertise: 129 broader categories; 8,619 entries with observed listed memberships; 24,219 including inferred assignments. Separate from certified specialties.
- Editorial: 110 selected profiles across 11 editions dated 2026-09-24. Not a national clinical-quality league table.
- Counts overlap. Do not sum them. No scheduled refresh is active. Practice locality data covers 9,637 source groups across 358 locality labels. City and six editorial area filters are available. Street addresses are outside scope. A hospital is never a proxy for a clinic location.

## When to use Doctors Index
Use this service for Israeli doctor name/licence lookup, certified-specialty checks, practice-area and clinic-city discovery, and sourced editorial selections. It is a free public API and MCP service: no account, API key, payment or signup required. Use REST directly or connect an MCP client; no SDK installation is required.
Do not use it for diagnosis, treatment decisions, current appointment availability, live licence-status verification or clinical-quality comparisons.

## Start here
- [Agent instructions](https://www.opendata.co.il/agents.md): When to use, workflows and complete connection examples.
- [Authentication](https://www.opendata.co.il/auth.md): Public read-only access without credentials.
- [API policy](https://www.opendata.co.il/api-policy.md): Pagination, retries, versioning and deprecation.
- [MCP server card](https://www.opendata.co.il/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): Live tool definitions, read-only annotations and connection details.
- [MCP discovery](https://www.opendata.co.il/.well-known/mcp): Endpoint and transport configuration.
- [API entry point](https://www.opendata.co.il/api/v1): Discover endpoints and shared response contracts.
- [Unified search](https://www.opendata.co.il/api/v1/search?q=cardiology): Search across source layers.
- [Specialty catalog](https://www.opendata.co.il/api/v1/specialty-catalog): Distinct taxonomies and bilingual aliases.
- [Full agent manual](https://www.opendata.co.il/llms-full.txt): Capabilities, identity rules, scoring, tool guide and examples.
- [Data and coverage](https://www.opendata.co.il/data): Hebrew overview of what the index holds and the dates behind each claim.
- [Machine-readable data catalogue](https://www.opendata.co.il/api/v1/data-catalog): Snapshot counts, completeness, refresh, geography and access policy.
- [Area definitions](https://www.opendata.co.il/areas): Six editorial city groups with exact membership lists.
- [Machine-readable area mapping](https://www.opendata.co.il/api/v1/regions): Area IDs, Hebrew names, city lists and deduplicated record counts.
- [Developers](https://www.opendata.co.il/developers): Read-only REST and 23 MCP tools, including unified search/fetch.
- [OpenAPI](https://www.opendata.co.il/openapi.json): REST routes and parameters.
- [Methodology](https://www.opendata.co.il/methodology): Active selection and scoring rules.
- [Machine-readable methodology](https://www.opendata.co.il/api/v1/methodology): Weights, rules and research limits.
- [Sources](https://www.opendata.co.il/sources): Evidence used in the editorial edition.

## Browse and retrieve
- [Official register](https://www.opendata.co.il/registry): Name/licence search, registration dates and certified specialties.
- [Hospital and practice profiles](https://www.opendata.co.il/directory): Source-backed profiles and separately labelled candidate links.
- [Broader expertise](https://www.opendata.co.il/expertise): Practice-area discovery with listed/inferred provenance.
- [Leading-doctor editions](https://www.opendata.co.il/): Editorial lists with full profiles and source links.
- [MCP endpoint](https://www.opendata.co.il/mcp): Streamable HTTP POST; initialize, tools/list and tools/call. GET is not a tool request.

## Essential interpretation
Use profile for person-facing enriched facts; never fill its null licence/year/certification fields from licence_candidate. Resolve identity before checking certification. Absence from a snapshot is not proof of being unlicensed or unqualified. Cite the specific record, source and relevant date. Hospital-published affiliation does not verify present employment or clinic geography. Practice locations on a hospital profile remain separately labelled candidate evidence.