Editing Tiberias (section)

==Health care==
[[File:The_Doctor_House_-_The_Scots_Hotel.JPG|thumb|The [[Scots Hotel]] in the restored former hospital of Dr Torrance]]
In 1885, a Scottish doctor and minister, David Watt Torrance, opened a mission hospital in Tiberias that accepted patients of all races and religions.<ref>[http://info.jpost.com/C001/Demo/gal/isr_guide/north/tiberias.html Tiberias – Walking with the sages in Tiberias] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112183251/http://info.jpost.com/C001/Demo/gal/isr_guide/north/tiberias.html |date=2012-01-12}}</ref> In 1894, it moved to larger premises at Beit abu Shamnel abu Hannah. David Watt Torrance died in Tiberias in 1923. The same year his son, Dr. Herbert Watt Torrance, was appointed head of the hospital. In 1949, following the establishment of the State of Israel, it became a maternity hospital supervised by the [[Ministry of Health (Israel)|Israeli Department of Health]]. After its closure in 1959, the building became a guesthouse until 1999, when it was renovated and reopened as the [[Scots Hotel]].<ref name="UoDArchiveMS38">{{cite web |title=Collection MS 38 - Torrance Collection |url=https://archives.dundee.ac.uk/ms-38 |website=Archive Services Catalogue |publisher=University of Dundee |access-date=9 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="Scots hotel2">{{cite web|url=http://www.inisrael.com/scotshotels/history.html|title=The Scots Hotel- History|publisher=The Scots Hotel|access-date=10 October 2011|archive-date=25 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325004049/http://www.inisrael.com/scotshotels/history.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20126585|title=BBC News – Scots Hotel: Why the Church of Scotland has a Galilee getaway|last=Roxburgh|first=Angus|date=2012-10-31|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2013-03-12|archive-date=2018-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105053656/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20126585|url-status=live}}</ref>

Poria hospital is located near Upper Tiberias neighborhood, and operates a hospitalization control center in the city itself.