Latest developments affecting the social, economic and political well-being of Israel will be discussed at the 40th annual convention of the Hadassah. which will open this week-end at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria here, with delegates from 1, 200 chapters representing the 300, 000 members of the organization.
The convention will also act on a number of recommendations relating to the increasing, important aspects of the Hadassah program. The delegates will be called upon to chart for the coming year Hadassah’s $9, 000, 000 program of medical, social welfare, child rescue and rehabilitation, vocational education and land redemption in Israel, and of fostering a creative Jewish life in the United States through Jewish education.
One of the major features of the four-day parley will be a symposium on problems facing Hadassah’s vast medical program in Israel, in which participants will include Dr. Harry Eagle, leading American medical authority and a key figure in the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.; Dr. E. D. Rosenfeld, executive director of the Long Island Jewish Hospital; Dr. Joseph Hirsh, executive director of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Advisory Board; and Dr. Kalman J. Mann, director general of the Hadassah Medical Organization in Israel. Moshe Kol, of Jerusalem, director of the World Youth Aliyah movement, will report to the delegates on the needs of Israel.
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