An
Israeli residentA person whose life is centered in Israel. Criteria for determining this include: Israel is your permanent place of residence, where your family resides, where your children go to school, your primary place of work, or where you are studying. who hase been living abroad for two or more consecutive years and who does not pay health insurance contributions to the National Insurance Institute or who is in arrears in the payment of these contributions for at least 12 months
– loses his rights to medical care services in Israel for 6 months at the most, under the State Health Insurance Law.
Payment of the debt does not exempt you from being subject to a waiting period to get medical care services, but you can
redeem the waiting period with a special payment.
Here is how
the waiting period for medical services is calculated.