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The Rothschild-Hadassah Hospital
The first Jewish hospital in Israel was established by Baron Jacob-James Meir Rothschild in the year 1854/5614, and was given the name ‘the Meir Rothschild Hospital’.
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The Rothschild-Hadassah hospital was set up in the Old City of Jerusalem, after a wave of famine and Malaria afflicted the land. It was during the period following the cold war (1853-1856) between Russia and the Ottoman Empire that ruled Israel at the time. As a result there was an urgent need for a medical solution to illness and injury.
In the year 1888/5648 the hospital relocated to HaNevi’im Street, and then in the year 1918/5678, the administration of the Hadassah Association in America renamed the hospital ‘the Rothschild-Hadassah Hospital’. It won the title as being the most progressive hospital in the Middle East.
In the year 1939/5699 the hospital moved to the Mount Scopus neighborhood, where it has been situated until today.
At the time of the War of Independence (1948/5738) the leader of the Palestinian forces in Jerusalem, Abdael Kadar Al-Husseini, threatened to blow up the hospital which was under Arab siege – a plan that didn’t materialize.
In Hadassah-Mt. Scopus Hospital, about 5,400 babies are born every year.
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