Archived News
12-Jun-2007
To honor Valda Knight’s incredible commitment and contribution to Hadassah New Zealand, her committee plans to purchase, in her name, a Nurses Charting Station in the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower at Hadassah Hospital, now under construction. For further information, contact Norma Lenore at
nlenore@hadassah.org.
21-May-2007
Continuing to educate Australians about the Hadassah Medical Center’s Jerusalem Crisis Intervention Center (JCIC) and its crucial role in Israeli society, Hadassah Australia once again hosted its Director, Dr. Esti Galili, for a series of presentations and meetings with supporters and potential new donors in both Melbourne and Sydney.
21-May-2007
Hadassah Switzerland, through its Geneva unit, held a stellar event in March, raising the wonderful sum of $200,000 for the Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Department at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, one of this year’s priority projects.
21-May-2007
Professor Michael Baum, a leading breast cancer expert and Hadassah United Kingdom (UK) Trustee, has been honored with a prestigious life time achievement award...
Lord Leslie Turnberg, Hadassah United Kingdom Trustee, is a leading player in the new Fair Play Medical Group (FPMG)...
21-May-2007
Two talented singers brought Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel's musical hits alive for 200 people in an intimate atmosphere of a small Left-Bank Parisian dinner theatre. Funds raised are allocated for the new Altura Department of Genetics at the Hadassah Medical Center.
21-May-2007
Hadassah International Director of Resource Development Gady Gronich met with Diana, Princess and Duchess of Saxony, in Berlin this past March. Princess Diana, he reports, feels very close to Israel and agreed to help Hadassah Germany by joining the Berlin committee in planning future events.
21-May-2007
Hosting a stand at the Israel Independence Day celebration in Munich on May 3, entitled “I Like Israel,” Hadassah Munich boosted awareness of Hadassah International among the many attendees.
21-May-2007
The most common question Prof. Orly Elpeleg, head of Hadassah’s Center of Excellence for Pediatric Metabolic Diseases, hears is, “What in the world is a metabolic disease?” Actually, the world of metabolic diseases is a virtually undiscovered one, and Prof. Elpeleg is one of the few pioneers in this field.
21-May-2007
Liya Kebede,
WHO Goodwill Ambassador
and Supermodel
Liya Kebede, World Health Organization (WHO) Ambassador and Supermodel, will be honored with the prestigious
Bernice S. Tannenbaum Young International Volunteer of Distinction Award.
18-May-2007
Dr. Mario Ringler, President of the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano (the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary of Buenos Aires), who initiated an academic exchange between Hadassah and the Argentinian province of Tucumán, visited Hadassah International headquarters in New York on April 25. He gave a special presentation about the grand impact Hadassah’s physicians had when they crisscrossed Tucumán Province to share their expertise in pediatric health.
