Sha'ar Menashe

Sha'ar Menashe
Sha'ar Menashe
Coordinates: 32°30′35.99″N 35°0′18.72″E / 32.5099972°N 35.0052000°E / 32.5099972; 35.0052000Coordinates: 32°30′35.99″N 35°0′18.72″E / 32.5099972°N 35.0052000°E / 32.5099972; 35.0052000
Council Menashe
Region Sharon plain
Founded 1949
Website www.shaar-menashe.org.il

Sha'ar Menashe (Hebrew: שַׁעַר מְנַשֶּׁה, lit. Menashe Gate) is a psychiatric medical centre in northern Israel. Located near Pardes Hanna-Karkur with an area of 740 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In the past after 1949 there was here a camp for first absorption of immigrants from Yemen and Iraq and a village for elderly people. In 2007 the hospital had in treatment 1,100 patients and was the largest psychiatric institution in Israel.

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