The first dedication ceremony to take place at Hadassah’s Mount Scopus Hospital since 1948 was celebrated here last week to mark the dedication of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff emergency wing. The Mount Scopus Hospital was opened by Hadassah in 1939 to become a famed medical center in the Middle East and then evacuated in 1948 when access was cut off by Jordan. For 19 years the hospital lay dormant in a UN-supervised no man’s land until Jerusalem was reunited in 1967. Joseph Meyerhoff, the Baltimore philanthropist and communal leader is chairman of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations and a former United Jewish Appeal national chairman.
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