A $1,000,000 contribution to Hadassah for the construction of a facility to be known as the”Siegfried and Irma Ullman Building for Cancer and Allied Diseases” was announced at a press conference here today, held in connection with the Hadassah national convention now taking place in Boston.
The announcement was made by Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson, Hadassah president, who said that the contribution was made by the board of directors of the Siegfried and Irma Ullman Foundation. The $1,000,000 gift, she said, will launch a $5,000,000 campaign for the building and endowment fund for the Moshe Sharett Institute of Oncology, named by Hadassah in memory of the late Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Israel. This will be a national institute for research and treatment of cancer in Israel.
The Ullman Building, which will be a part of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, will house the Sharett Institute as well as Hadassah’s total research and clinical resources for combating cancer and allied diseases, Mrs. Jacobson told the press conference. The building is being planned to serve a caseload of 2,000 inpatients. The building would contain all the services for the diagnosis, treatment and research concerned with cancer and allied diseases. It will consist of three floors.
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