Jewish Physicians Here to Raise $100,000 for Hebrew University Medical College

The sum of $100,000 will be raised during the coming year for an administration building of the proposed medical college of the Hebrew University in Palestine, according to an announcement by Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, president of the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, at their annual meeting last night in the Academy of Medicine. Dr. Ratnoff, who organized the Committee in 1921, and was elected its president last night for the tenth consecutive time, said that the Committee had purchased land in 1922 on Mt. Scopus, the site of the University, on which the proposed medical school would be erected.

Dr. Emanuel Libman, heart specialist of New York, and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Physicians’ Committee, said that the fund would be raised in honor of Dr. Ratnoff whose devotion to the work has been largely responsible for the achievements of the Committee.

Dr. S. S. Goldwater, expert in hospital planning and administration, and former director of Mt. Sinai Hospital, addressed the meeting on the place of the Hebrew University Hospital in Palestine. The Hospital, which is a joint project of the Physicians’ Committee and the Hadassah Organization, is the major concern of over 1,000 physicians who are members of the committee, according to Dr. Goldwater.

The Physicians’ Committee annually contributes $25,000 toward the scientific departments of the Hebrew University, of which $15,000 is given to the Microbiological work, and $10,000 to the Chemistry Department. The Committee also sets aside a special appropriation for the Medical Library of the University, which is the only one of its kind in the Near East.

Dr. Julius Jarcho, member of the Committee, established an endowment fund for the Medical Library, for the purchase of new books, and personally subscribes for the majority of the 330 medical periodicals now in the University Library and the Medical Branch in Tel Aviv.