Hadassah
Hadassah (after the Hebrew word for myrtle , both Jewish name of Queen Esther ) is a 1912 by Henrietta Szold founded Zionist women's organization in the US. She is particularly committed to the health system in Israel and the empowerment of women. In Israel Hadassah supports its own Hadassah Medical Organization.
Jerusalem hospitals
The organization first built the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus in the east of Jerusalem .
On April 13, 1948, one month before the establishment of the State of Israel, a supply convoy was attacked on the way to the hospital in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood . The British Army took six hours to intervene. 77 Jewish doctors, nurses and patients were killed in this attack. After years of discussion, the hospital was moved to Ein Kerem in West Jerusalem and opened in 1961.
Up until 1967, Mount Scopus was an Israeli enclave in the Jordanian-occupied East Jerusalem .
The original hospital on Mount Scopus was reopened on October 21, 1975 after a twenty-seven year hiatus, so that there have been two Hadassah hospitals in Jerusalem since then:
- Hadassah University Hospital Ein Kerem to the west: ⊙
- The Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus: ⊙
Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem is a university hospital that conducts research in many fields. It is now one of the leading hospitals in the Middle East and is fully funded by donations and medical services. The hospital's motto is: “Building a better world through medicine”. True to this motto, Hadassah Hospital is open to all people in the region, regardless of religion, gender or nationality.
art
The Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem houses the famous twelve windows by Marc Chagall in the in-house synagogue , which depict the 12 tribes of the people of Israel and the 12 sons of Jacob.
Organizations
In addition to the Hadassah organization, which only operates in America, there are:
- Hadassah International (Ambassador Judith Epstein )
- Young Hadassah International (a network of youth and young adults)
- Hadassah Germany (based in Munich )
- Hadassah Switzerland (based in Zurich )
literature
- Nira Bartal: Hadassah. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 2: Co-Ha. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02502-9 , pp. 498-501.
Web links
- http://www.hadassah.de
- http://www.hadassah.org/
- http://www.hadassahinternational.org
- http://www.younghadassah.de
- http://www.hadassah.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mordecai Naor : Eretz Israel. The 20th century. Könemann, Cologne, 1998, ISBN 3-89508-594-4 , p. 454.
- ↑ Chagall Window (full description on hospital website), accessed December 6, 2019.