Hadassah Medical Center
31 47'50 "N 35 14'31" E / 31.79722, 35.24194
Hadassah Medical Center Jerusalem was originally founded in 1939 on Mount Scopus , at the time of the British Mandate , by organizational Zionist American Women, Hadassah, itself founded in 1912. Hadassah is the original name of the biblical figure of Queen Esther.
A second Hadassah Hospital has existed since 1961 in the west of the city, Ein Kerem. This is especially for the synagogue of this new hospital that in 1962 , Marc Chagall created a series of 12 windows on the theme Biblical the " 12 Tribes of Israel. "
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During the Arab siege of 1948 , the hospital and the Hebrew University which is close resisted repeated attacks. April 13, 1948 , there were no survivors in the attack perpetrated by local Arab populations against a supply convoy comprising 79 people including doctors, nurses and patients who went to hospital References
- Henry Laurens , "The Question of Palestine: The fulfillment of the prophecies, 1947-1967" (Volume 3) Fayard, 2007, p. 76.
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