Since before there was a State of Israel Hadassah has played an integral role in Jerusalem built around a vision for the health and well-being of the city. And all of its people this vision brought to life through. Hadassah's hands-on practical Zionism is now woven into the fabric of modern-day Israel its heartbeat its infrastructure for all who love Jerusalem the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Israel's capital city is a jiggle nt time for Hadassah Jerusalem's reunification also marks the reunification of its two hospital. Campuses in 1913 Hadassah formed the framework for Israel's healthcare system when it sent two nurses to Palestine to establish a public health and welfare station in Jerusalem in 1918. Hadassah sent its first delegation of 45 doctors nurses dentists and sanitary engineers to combat the intolerable health. Conditions of post-war. Palestine Hadassah Mount Scopus is the first teaching hospital and medical center in Palestine a critical milestone in introducing modern medicine to the Middle East on April 13th 1948 just one month before the declaration of the State of Israel 78 Hadassah and Hebrew University doctors nurses scientists and other medical personnel are killed when an armored ambulance is ambushed on route to Mount Scopus Hadassah evacuates the hospital which sits abandoned and empty as a UN guarded Israeli exclave for the next 19 years. Hadassah and Karin opens bringing together. Israel's first schools of medicine nursing and dentistry previously located throughout Jerusalem On June 5th 1967 the Six Day War erupts thanks to emergency. Plans created two years earlier. Hadassah aim kerim is prepared for massive casualties when victory is declared the road to Mount. Scopus reopens journalist rena-san rural road in Hadassah magazine about the delegation that traveled through Jerusalem to reopen the Mount Scopus hospital. These were not just abandoned buildings not just neglected and overgrown garden. This was desecrated territory. Hadassah national president Charlotte Jacobsen receives the keys back to the Mount Scopus hospital and pledges to renovate and reopen Hadassah Mount Scopus.

She keeps her word almost 28 years after the convoy massacre Hadassah Mount Scopus receives its first 100 patients since Jerusalem's reunification Hadassah doctors and researchers have led Israel's medical innovation our cutting-edge medical research is being used around the globe in 1987 HMO performs. The first heart transplant in Israel in 1988 the HMO orthopedic team replaces cancerous vertebrae with an artificial device. The first time the surgery is performed in the world in 1995. Hadassah dedicates the Charlotte R Bloomberg mother and Child Center at Hadassah aim. Karen's HMO opens a state-of-the-art obstetrics Department in 1996 in 2001 HMO advances to the forefront of stem-cell research in 2005 the Nobel Peace Prize Committee nominates Hadassah medical organization for its bridges for peace model of ethnic and religious diversity of its medical staff and patients in 2012. Hadassah dedicates the Sarah Weston Davidson hospital tower in 2015. An HMO macular degeneration patient receives groundbreaking stem cell therapy treatment. 2016 was a banner year when Hadassah opened 13 new underground operating rooms in the surgical complex at the Sarah Westin Davidson Hospital power and multiple sclerosis patients. Mullion lichtman's gets up from her wheelchair after a third stem cell therapy infusion at Hadassah Hospital in 2016 Hadassah interim ER was named number one in patient satisfaction and quality assurance by Israel Ministry of Health in 2017 a world first intestinal surgery saves Palestinian newborn at HMO and an HMO fetal medicine specialist performs. Israel's first in utero spina bifida surgery in 2017 surgeons perform the world's first dual robotic orthopedic surgery in the hybrid ORF Hadassah Sarah Westman Davidson Hospital tower since Hadassah is founding in 1912 we have seen Israel go from a fledgling state to a powerful innovator without determination and vision none of these Hadassah milestones would have been possible Hadassah volunteers and donors have made an impact not just in Jerusalem and Israel but on the world Jerusalem's past has helped shape the future with your help our vision for Israel built around the health and the well-being of all of its people will make more miracles and milestones possible you.