The first medical center and graduate school of medicine in Palestine, to be known as the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital, will be built on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem, near the Hebrew University, it was announced yesterday by Hadassah and the American Friends of the Hebrew University.
The national board of Hadassah approved the location chosen by Drs. J. J. Golub and Nathan Ratnoff, both of New York, who went to Palestine to make a final choice with the site committee there. The physicians will present their report to the board of governors of the Hebrew University, now in session at Zurich, and to the annual Hadassah convention to be held in Washington in October.
Mrs. Edward Jacobs, chairman of the building fund committee, said the new institution will contain a hospital, complete clinical and research laboratories and a graduate school of medicine. While the hospital will be owned and administered by Hadassah, which maintains a complete medical system in Palestine, the academic work of the institution will be directed by the Hebrew University.
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Mrs. Jacobs announced that a building committee has been appointed in Palestine to expedite the construction program. Preliminary
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