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Marcie Natan, President1SloganThe Power of Women Who DoWebsite. Hadassah. org. Hadassah, the Womens Zionist Organization of America is an American Jewish volunteer womens organization. Founded in 1. 91. Henrietta Szold, it is one of the largest international Jewish organizations, with 3. United States. 3 Hadassah fundraises for community programs and health initiatives in Israel, including the Hadassah Medical Center, a leading research hospital in Israel renowned for its inclusion of and treatment for all religions and races in Jerusalem. In the US, the organization advocates on behalf of womens rights, religious autonomy and US Israel diplomacy. In Israel, Hadassah supports health education and research, womens initiatives, schools and programs for underprivileged youth. Former Headquarters of Hadassah in Manhattan. In 2. 01. 2, Hadassah opened the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower, a 5. In 2. 01. 4, National President Marcie Natan was named one of The Jerusalem Posts Top 5. Most Influential Jews. HistoryeditOriginseditAt a meeting at Temple Emanu El in New York City on February 2. Henrietta Szold together with other Zionist women, proposed to the Daughters of Zion study circle that they expand their purpose and embrace proactive work to help meet the health needs of Palestines people. The goal was to promote the Zionist ideal through education, public health initiatives, and the training of nurses in what was then the Palestine region of the Ottoman Empire. Because the meeting was held around the time of Purim, the women called themselves The Hadassah chapter of the Daughters of Zion, adopting the Hebrew name of Queen Esther. Dell Optiplex Bios Update Failed. Henrietta Szold became the first president. Within a year, Hadassah had five growing chapters in New York, Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago and Boston. Its charter articulates twin goals to begin public health initiatives and nurses training in Palestine, and to foster Zionist ideals through education in America. The first years Establishing healthcare in PalestineeditIn 1. Hadassah sent two nurses to Palestine, Rose Kaplan and Rae Landy. They set up a small public health station in Jerusalem to provide maternity care and treat trachoma, a dreaded eye disease rampant in the Middle East. The core of future Hadassah education programs emerged when Jessie Sampter founded The Hadassah School of Zionism in New York in 1. The school required chapter leaders to take courses, instituted a correspondence course and inspires other Hadassah chapters to create their own Schools of Zionism. Sampter published A Course in Zionism, a collection of facts, essays, and reading lists financed by prominent American Zionist, Judge Louis Brandeis. By 1. 91. 6, Hadassah established the Palestine Purchasing and Supplies Department later the Hadassah Supplies Bureau to buy and ship items unavailable in the yishuv, the pre state Jewish community in Palestine. Although Hadassahs first two nurses were compelled to return to America in 1. Dr. Avraham Ticho and Dr. Helena Kagan as well as the midwives and probationers were able to carry on their work. Hadassah established the American Zionist Medical Unit AZMU in 1. The Unit was set up to combat the intolerable health conditions of postwar Palestine and to create permanent health and welfare programs. From the beginning, it established a principle that it would serve all with equal care, regardless of race, creed, ethnicity or nationality. The AZMU helped to establish six hospitals in Palestine which were then turned over to municipal authorities. Led by Alice Seligsberg, the Unit sailed for Palestine in June, bringing desperately needed drugs, medical instruments and supplies, linen and clothing. That year, Hadassah also founded a nursing school to train local personnel and create a cadre of nurses. Over the next few years, the Unit, based in the old Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem, initiated American style health and welfare programs with intensive campaigns to wipe out malaria, cholera, trachoma and scalp diseases in many Jewish communities in the yishuv. The Unit organized a sanitation program and founded Hadassah hospitals in Jaffa, Tiberias, and Safed, as well as opened the Nurses Training School at the Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem. The first 2. 2 young women graduated from Hadassahs Nurses Training School in 1. In 1. 92. 4, the Units name is changed to Hadassah Medical Organization. In 1. 91. 9, Hadassah organized the first School Hygiene Department in Palestine to give routine health examinations to Jerusalem school children. During the Arab riots of 1. Hadassah nurses cared for the wounded on both sides. Henrietta Szold also moved to Jerusalem that year to develop community health and preventive care programs. Back in New York in 1. Alice Seligsberg formed Junior Hadassah, which provided innovative programs for young women who wanted to participate in Hadassahs Zionist mission. In the same year, Henrietta Szold moved to Palestine to lead the medical work started by the Unit. She remained based in Jerusalem until her death in 1. In 1. 92. 1, Hadassah nurse Bertha Landsman created Palestines first permanent infant welfare station, Tipat Halav Drop of Milk, in Jerusalem. The overwhelming success inspired Hadassah to expand the program, delivering fresh milk to needy families by donkey express. Hadassah also opened a hospital in Tel Aviv, the citys first hospital. Under Hadassahs philosophy of devolution, it initiated and developed a number of facilities and projects and then transferred them to the appropriate municipalities. Hadassah transferred administration of this hospital to the Tel Aviv municipality in 1. Hadassah instituted a school lunch program to teach nutrition and serve healthy meals to children and teenagers in Palestine. Pennies are collected by American Hebrew school students to fund this project, which is devolved to the Israeli government in 1. Hadassahs support ending in 1. Nathan Straus contributed 1. Hadassah develops its Infant Welfare Stations into a complete network, extending from Jerusalem to Tiberias. Pamphlets were distributed to all Hadassah chapters for five cents each. Junior Hadassah assumed sole support of the Meir Shfeyah Childrens Village, a youth village housing World War I orphans and socially disadvantaged children devolved to the Israel Ministry of Agriculture in 1. Hadassah continuing limited financial support. Hadassah forms a partnership with the Jewish National Fund JNF, also known as Keren Keyemeth Le. Yisrael KKL, an organization established in 1. Fifth World Zionist Congress to purchase and transform land in Palestine for Jewish farming, housing, roads, and recreation. JNF became, and has remained, a major Hadassah project in Israel. Hadassah opens Palestines first tuberculosis ward in its Safed hospital, which becomes the regions tuberculosis center in 1. Israeli government in 1. The cornerstone is laid at a solemn ceremony for the Nathan and Lina Straus Health Center in Jerusalem, conceived as a model for future health centers in Palestine, with funding from Nathan Straus. According to Dr. E.