Hospitals across Israel are facing extreme overcrowding, leaving internal medicine departments, emergency rooms and pediatric wards with no available beds. Patients are being hospitalized in hallways and cafeterias, and wait times in emergency rooms can be over 10 hours. The peak of illnesses in the winter has not yet been reached, and vaccination rates for influenza and other respiratory infections are alarmingly low. Healthcare staff are feeling overwhelmed and helpless under these conditions.