Tel Aviv Medical Center history

The fledgling movement, established on the Jewish festival of Purim in 1912, was named after Queen Esther, the holiday’s heroine, whose Hebrew name was Hadassah.

1918 Hadassah, together with the Federation of American Zionists, forms the American Zionist Medical Unit, which sails for Palestine, bringing desperately needed drugs, medical instruments, and supplies.

1921 Hadassah opens a hospital in Tel Aviv, that city’s first house of healing.

Founded together with the hospital in 1936 was the Dina School of Nursing which now offers fully accredited academic programs in various aspects of nursing, and qualifies students for BA and MA degree in nursing.

1939 Hadassah University Hospital opens on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.

1948 Hadassah is forced to leave its hospital on Mount Scopus, unable to ensure the safety of its patients or health personnel in this war-torn region.

1949 The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine (Israel’s first medical school) opens.

1953 Hadassah pilots a family and community health center, which becomes a model for community health throughout Israel.

1958 Hadassah begins sending ophthalmologists to African countries to help eradicate eye diseases.

1961 Hadassah opens a new hospital in Jerusalem in Ein Kerem.

1967 Jerusalem is reunited under Israeli control and Hadassah commits to rebuild its hospital on Mount Scopus.

1976 Hadassah opens the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Rehabilitation Pavilion, the Rosalie Goldberg Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the Moshe Sharett Institute of Oncology.

1980 Braun Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine opens.

Initially, a surgical unit was established in a one-story building called Beilinson II. Several years later, it was renamed Hasharon Hospital, and changed in 1982 to Golda-Hasharon Hospital after the late Prime Minister Golda Meir, who was also Chairman of the board of Kupat Holim.

1986 Ina and Jack Kay Hospice opens.

In 1991, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, the largest and most advanced children's hospital in the Middle East, opened on Beilinson Campus.

1999 Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy is established.

2003 Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center is established.

2007, Hadassah breaks ground for the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Inpatient Tower of Healing and initiates the Tower Capital Campaign.