DocToKal, the bridge between you and your doctor in Israel

Moving to Israel means finding your roots again, your family, a new life. It also means facing a healthcare system with its own rules, its own conventions and, above all, its own language. The websites of the health funds — the kupot holim — are almost entirely in Hebrew, and for many English speakers, whether they arrived last year or settled here decades ago, working through those platforms alone to find a doctor is genuine hard work.

That experience, shared by a great many of us, is where DocToKal comes from.

Our mission

DocToKal was created to help anyone living in Israel who does not master Hebrew, or who simply prefers to handle their health in their own language, find the right doctor without difficulty.

Access to medical information is a real problem in Israel for those who do not read Hebrew: the health fund websites are hard to navigate, the doctor listings do not always say which languages a practitioner speaks, and the search has to be started over with each fund. DocToKal removes that burden by bringing the essential information together in English, on a single platform.

Beyond the directory, we also publish practical guides to how the Israeli medical system works: how the health funds are organised, how supplementary insurance works, how to book an appointment, and more generally how to find your way through a system that can look daunting when you are new to the country.

Who we are

DocToKal is run by a team of Israelis who speak English and French. We know from the inside the difficulties faced by olim hadashim — new immigrants — and equally those of people who have lived in Israel for years and have still never been entirely comfortable handling health matters alone in Hebrew.

It is that double familiarity, with the country and with what its communities actually go through, that lets us build a genuinely useful tool, designed by people who have been through the same steps as you.

Why you can trust us

DocToKal is not a medical practice and does not replace the advice of a health professional. We are a tool for finding your way: built to save you time, to set your mind at ease, and to let you manage your health and your family’s without the language barrier.

Our vision

We want DocToKal to be the first thing anyone in Israel thinks of when looking for a doctor in their own language — as natural as asking a friend or someone from your community, but with the reliability and the coverage of a real database.

We keep enriching our directory and our guides every day, with a single aim: to make the Israeli healthcare system accessible to everyone who would rather understand it in their own language.