The Israel Medical Association (IMA) Founded     1912, 36 years before the founding of the State of Israel by Dr. M. Sherman President     Dr. Yoram Blachar The vast majority of the physicians in Israel are members of the IMA. Membership is on a voluntary basis. Once every four years the IMA holds the IMA Convention, at which its leadership and the members of its institutions are elected. These individuals work voluntarily for the advancement of physicians and medicine in Israel.