The new Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Israel, for which ground was broken last week in the vicinity of Jerusalem, will not only provide urgently needed medical care for the growing population of Israel, but will become a focal point for medical healing, teaching and research for the Jewish State and the entire Middle East, Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn, national president of Hadassah, reported today following her return from Israel.
Mrs. Rosensohn also revealed that Hadassah’s new community health program would soon be launched in Israel. Based on a group of health welfare stations operated by Hadassah in the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv corridor, the community health program “will seek to stress the preventive aspects of medicine and treat the members of a given community on a family rather than an individual basis,” she said.
She also reported that Hadassah’s vocational education program “was being expanded to help meet the urgent demand for skilled personnel in Israel’s stepped-up industrialization program. In addition to our Brandeis Vocational Center in Israel, Hadassah will shortly be completing a new $200,000 vocational complex in the Romema sector of Jerusalem to increase our facilities for training young men in the fine mechanics, precision instrument and printing fields,” she stated.
Mrs. Rosensohn said that on her trip through Israel she noticed that “the only thing that remained unchanged in Israel was the indomitable spirit and determination of its people in the face of overwhelming odds to carry on and secure their nation’s destiny.”
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