Israel's Ministry of Health has bowed to pressure from flagship NIF grantee Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Physicians for Human Rights and has agreed to allocate five MRI Imaging machines to hospitals in the north and south of the country.

At a meeting of the Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee in July 2008, the Health Ministry announced its intention of allocating five new MRI machines to hospitals in Israel. ACRI and Physicians for Human Rights demanded that these machines be given to hospitals in Israel's periphery, where health services are inferior to the center of the country.

Last month the government issued a contract for the machines, which said "priority will be given to a hospital from the northern and southern district."

The NIF family strives to reduce gaps in access to healthcare between the center and the periphery of the country.