plans, she declared, call for 210 beds, which will make the hospital one of the two largest in Palestine. She added that the cornerstone of the building will be laid at the same time that the Hadassah organization here holds its convention.
Officers of Hadassah and the American Friends of the Hebrew University hailed the selection of a definite site as the final step toward a speedy realization of the medical center.
“With complete facilities for research and teaching, the hospital will bring Palestine to the forefront of medical science in the Near East. It will give Palestine wonderful opportunities to advance science and raise health standards in that part of the world,” said Mrs. Jacobs.
Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, sees “limitless possibilities” in the performance of medical work on the part of the new hospital.
“It not only can serve all the people of the Near East, regardless of faith or creed, but may become part of a great medical center from which in time to come may emerge solutions of scientific problems which will benefit mankind,” he declared.
GERMAN SPECIALISTS CONSIDERED
Mrs. Jacobs pointed out that the new institution will supplant the present Hadassah-Rothschild Hospital, which is housed in a building more than eighty years old and is situated in cramped quarters in the busiest section of Jerusalem. She said that among the noted German specialists who are being considered for positions on the hospital and teaching staffs are Prof. Ludwig Halberstadter, director of the Hadassah radiology institute which will become a part of the medical center; Prof. Bernhard Zondek, noted gynecologist; Dr. H. A. Krebs, formerly of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute, and Dr. Georg Goldhaber, who was Dr. Halberstadter’s assistant in Berlin.
To augment the resources already on hand, a building fund campaign for $200,000 for the medical center is now in progress in this country under the auspices of Hadassah and the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, with Mrs. Jacobs as chairman.
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