Magistrate Anna M. Kross and Mrs. Samuel C. Lamport have been appointed New York district cochairmen of the building fund campaign for the Hadassah-University Hospital for Palestine, it was announced yesterday by the New York chapter of Hadassah. The project is the undertaking of Hadassah, the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee and the Hebrew University.
Mrs. Felix M. Warburg is honorary chairman of the national campaign to raise $200,000 for the hospital, and Mrs. Edward Jacobs is chairman. The institution, which is to be built in Jerusalem, is planned as a medical center, and will include a model hospital, research institute and post-graduate school of medicine.
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