The airport code ETH refers to Eilat's original city airport, which closed permanently in 2019 and was fully replaced by Ramon Airport, roughly eighteen kilometers north of the resort - so if an itinerary or an older travel site still lists ETH, treat that as outdated rather than a real arrival point. The honest travel-insurance question here is really about Eilat itself, plus the disruption that outdated airport references can cause when a booking or transfer plan assumes an airport that no longer operates.
Trip-disruption cover matters more in this specific case than at most airports, since relying on stale ETH information could genuinely mean misjudging ground transport time or a pickup location once you land at Ramon instead. Confirm your policy covers rebooking and missed-connection costs if an outdated itinerary or third-party service causes a scheduling error tied to Eilat's airport situation, and double-check any pre-arranged transfer references the correct airport before you fly, since ground staff at Ramon will not know about a pickup arranged around the old city airport.
Beyond the airport confusion, Eilat's own medical picture applies here as it would for any Eilat-based trip: local clinics and a hospital handle routine visits, but anything serious is typically stabilized locally and then transferred north to Beersheba, the real hospital hub for southern Israel, a couple of hours away. Confirm your policy covers inter-city medical transport within Israel rather than assuming a single local visit is sufficient for a genuinely serious case.
Given how quickly conditions can shift across this part of the region, checking current government travel advisories before booking and again close to departure is worth treating as routine rather than a one-time step. Keep any transport-booking confirmations, clinic paperwork, or incident reports if you need to file a claim, and check your policy's claims-notification timeline before you travel rather than assuming reimbursement is automatic afterward.