A two-story Mother and Child Pavilion was dedicated today at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center in the presence of American Ambassador Walworth Barbour, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Jerusalem Mayor Mordechai Ish Shalom, a delegation of American Hadassah leaders and the members of the 1963 Hadassah Study Mission.
The pavilion was named for Felica and Adolf Leon of New York who contributed $250,000 for the project which was built at a cost of $500,000. Other contributors were the United States Government, which provided a gift through counterpart funds, and Wilhelm Weinberg of New York who contributed $100,000.
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