Best Сhronic Kidney Disease Сhronic Kidney Disease in Israel: TOP 3 doctors

Dr. Barak Rosenzweig, MD, directs the Urological Oncology Service at Sheba Medical Center. He is a uro-oncologic surgeon with nearly 20 years of experience. He treats complex urologic cancers with advanced robotic and minimally invasive methods. He is listed among Israel’s Best Doctors by Forbes.

Expertise includes tumors of the prostate, kidney, bladder, testis, and upper urinary tract. He performs robotic radical prostatectomy, kidney-sparing partial nephrectomy, and advanced laparoscopy. Diagnostics include MRI-guided fusion biopsy and imaging-based personalized planning.

He completed a Urological Oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is a Senior Physician in the Department of Urology and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University. He is a graduate of the Sheba Talpiot program. He is an active researcher with over 200 publications in urologic oncology.

Dr. Pazit Beckerman is a nephrologist with over 24 years of clinical practice in Israel. She specializes in chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI), hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, hypertension-related kidney disease, glomerular diseases and proteinuria, electrolyte disorders, and kidney involvement in systemic diseases.

She served as Acting Director in 2020, Deputy Director from 2018 to 2020, and Senior Physician in the Department of Nephrology at Sheba Medical Center. She also heads the Israeli Dialysis Registry.

Education and training: MD, Hebrew University–Hadassah. Nephrology residency, Hadassah. Fellowship in nephrology, Sheba Medical Center. Biomedical Computational Studies, Bar-Ilan University. Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.

Her research focuses on AKI, immune-related kidney complications, and chronic kidney disease. She has authored many publications. She is a member of the American Society of Nephrology and a board member of the Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension.

Dr. Nir Kleinmann, MD, directs the Endourology and Kidney Stones Unit at Sheba Medical Center. He is an expert in minimally invasive urology and urologic oncology. His focus is the kidney and upper urinary tract. He was named among Israel’s Best Doctors for 2025–2026 by Forbes and ResultMed.

He is a pioneer of kidney‑sparing laser surgery. He uses a dual‑laser system with neodymium and holmium for complex tumors. His expertise includes UTUC, kidney and prostate cancer, kidney stones, and BPH.

His research includes the OLYMPUS trial on chemoablation for UTUC. He has more than 60 publications.

He is an Israeli board‑certified urologist. He is a Fellow of the American Endourology Society and a member of the Israeli Urological Association and the EAU. He completed fellowships in Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University. He also completed a fellowship in Kidney Cancer Research at McMaster University.