Plans for the erection after the war of an undergraduate medical school in Palestine and for the training of personnel for administrative and executive health posts were reported at today’s session of the Hadassah convention by Mrs. A. P. Schoolman, chairman of the Palestine committee of the organization.
Hadassah also intends to establish a neuropsychiatric institute in Palestine, Dr. L. M. Bluestone disclosed at the convention. “If our enemies must add mental disease to our burdens, we shall have to carry them and plan well ahead of the expected demand for such facilities,” Dr. Bluestone said. He also revealed that a plan for the establishment of a tuberculosis wing at the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem is now under consideration.
The launching of a land-buying campaign for Freedom Village, an industrial settlement for Jewish refugee children which is to be set up in Palestine, was announced by Mrs. Samuel Inselbuch, Jewish National Fund chairman of Hadassah. A check for $100,000 raised by Frank Cohen of New York was turned over to Hadassah to provide housing, an industrial plant and equipment for the 100 children who will be settled in the community. Hadassah is pledging itself to raise $300,000 for land reclamation and reforestation in Palestine next year, part of which will get toward the purchase of suitable acreage for Freedom Village.
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