For a trip built around Eilat, travel insurance earns its keep for reasons more specific than the usual blanket advice: this is Israel's southernmost city, wedged between the Red Sea coastline and the Negev desert, and its practical distance from the country's main hospital network matters more than most visitors assume. Most people come for the coral reefs off Coral Beach or a resort break, and either way the honest case for coverage rests on distance and activity risk rather than anything dramatic happening in the resort itself.
Eilat has local clinics and a hospital handling routine visits, but anything serious is generally stabilized there and then transferred north to Beersheba, the real hospital hub for the whole southern Negev region, a couple of hours away by road. Confirm your policy covers inter-city medical transport within Israel rather than assuming a single local visit is enough, since that northward transfer is the part most likely to involve real time and cost.
Diving and snorkeling on the Red Sea reefs are genuine draws around Eilat, and depth limits or dive-certification requirements are common gaps in general travel policies; check that yours names scuba diving specifically, especially for dives past standard recreational depth. Given how quickly conditions can shift across this part of the region, it is also worth checking current government travel advisories before you book and again close to departure, treating that as a routine step alongside your insurance research rather than a one-time formality.
Keep any clinic paperwork, dive-operator incident reports, and receipts for treatment or transport if you need to file a claim, since Israeli providers generally issue standard documentation on request. Many policies also want notice before non-emergency transfer or treatment is arranged, so check the claims process in your policy wording before you travel rather than assuming reimbursement happens automatically once the trip is over.