Ground was broken this week-end for the new Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center near Ein Karem, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, at a gay, colorful ceremony attended by Premier David Ben Gurion, representatives of Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization of America, of the University and of various political and cultural circles in Israel. The new hospital and medical school will cost $10,000,000 to complete. The land was donated by the Jewish National Fund.
Mr. Ben Gurion said that the buildings to arise on the Ein Karam site would not supersede those on Mt. Scopus, where the University and Hadassah established school buildings and a hospital a quarter of a century ago. He added that since the Mt. Scopus site did not provide the two institutions with sufficient space for the necessary expansion this area had been taken over. (Mt. Scopus is in Jewish hands, but the road to it is controlled by the Arab Legion.)
In a tribute to the women’s Zionist group, Mr. Ben Gurion said: “By establishing this institution Hadassah has once more displayed the wonderful qualities that underlie our Zionist creation: faith, vision, courage, perseverance and refusal to be deterred by difficulties and foresight.”
Mrs. Etta Rosensohn, president of Hadassah, who opened the ceremonies, greeted the guests “in behalf of the 30,000 members of Hadassah in whose history this ground-breaking paving the way for the erection of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Center is a memorable milestone.” She stressed that the aim of Hadassah is “not only healing and teaching, but also taking an active and worthy part in making and developing the Jewish State.”
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