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HadassahHadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is the largest of all Jewish women's organizations, with hundreds of thousands of members. It is a member of the World Zionist Organization. Founded in New York in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it undertook the organization of health services in Palestine. Clinics and hospitals were established in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Tiberias; the country's first nursing school was opened in Jerusalem, and the organization became known as the Hadassah Medical Organization. Henrietta Szold arrived in Palestine in 1920, and later headed the Health Department of the Jewish Agency. Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem became the Hebrew University's teaching hospital when the medical center on Mount Scopus was dedicated in 1939. Hadassah also founded the Seligsberg Vocational High School (1942) and the Brandeis Vocational Education Center (1944), both in Jerusalem. After the establishment of the state, Hadassah worked with immigrant youth and founded educational institutions - Ramat Hadassah Szold and Neurim. In 1952, the cornerstone was laid for a new Hadassah - Hebrew University medical center in Ein Karem (Jerusalem), inaugurated in 1961. After the Six-Day War (1967), the old hospital buildings on Mount Scopus were restored and expanded, and in 1975 the renewed medical center was inaugurated. Today the two modern medical centers in Jerusalem, in Ein Karem and on Mount Scopus, serve as leading teaching hospitals and include schools of nursing. |
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