The fifth modern hospital in Palestine to be maintained and conducted by Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, will be formally opened in Tiberias on May 1, according to an announcement by Mrs. Edward Jacobs, chairman of the Palestine Committee of Hadassah.
The institution will be known as the Peter J. Schweitzer Hospital, after its founder, the late Peter J. Schweitzer, of New York, who gave $85,000 for the building of the hospital. Mr. Schweitzer was treasurer of the Zionist Organization of America when Justice Louis D. Brandeis was president. Interest in the hospital project has been continued by Mrs. Schweitzer, who has just added $8,000 to her husband’s contribution.
Other contributions for the hospital are $17,500, voted by the last Zionist Congress, and $3,500 from the Palestine Emergency Relief Committee, which was organized during the Arab riots. The Jewish community of Tiberias will participate in the maintenance of the hospital.
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