Our history
1918
Scrub through the historical highlights of the Hadassah Hospitals in Jerusalem
1918
Zionist Medical Unit formed
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (HWZOA) forms Zionist Medical Unit, sending 44 medical personnel to Palestine
First nurses training school
First nurses training school opens and moves into the Rothschild building in Jerusalem
1922
First nurses trained in Israel
Tipat Halav infant welfare stations open
1929
Hadassah clinic in Hebron is destroyed during Arab marauder massacre
Hospital programs open in Rosh HaAyin, Safed, Tiberias & elsewhere
1934
Cornerstone is laid
1939
Hospital opens
Hospital opens. Most modern medical facility in the Middle East
1948
Convoy Massacre
1949
Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine opens
Israel’s first medical school opens
1952
Ground-breaking for Ein Kerem campus in West Jerusalem
1953
Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine opens
1959
First open heart surgery in Israel
1961
Inauguration of Hadassah University Hospital Ein Kerem
Moving day - patients are brought to the new hospital in Ein Kerem
1962
Stained glass windows completed
12 stained glass windows completed by Marc Chagall for the the Abbell Synagogue at Ein Kerem
1964
First double bypass surgery in Israel
1967
Hadassah regains Mt. Scopus
Israel regains full access to Mt. Scopus,” and the Hadassah women’s organization decides to rebuild the hospital
1968
Ground-breaking for Moshe Sharett Institute of Oncology at Ein Kerem
1969
First 24-hour emergency units open for respiratory and coronary care, burns and trauma
1970
First computerized patient management system in Israel
1973
Yom Kippur War
1974
Hadassah Hebrew University School of Occupational Therapy opens
1975
First Nursing Bachelor's Program opens
The rebuilt Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus opens
1983
Israel’s first test-tube baby is born
1984
17 new operating rooms opened at Ein Kerem
1986
First Heart Transplant
1988
Hadassah helps set up local hospital in Zaire
First contingent of Hadassah medical volunteers arrive in Kinshasa, Zaire to dedicate and help open a hospital constructed with help from Hadassah
1991
Operation Solomon
Operation Solomon Patients Treated at Hadassah
1992
Israel’s first heart-lung transplant
1997
Mother and Child Center opens
2004
Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine opens at Ein Kerem
2005
Hadassah Medical Organization nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
2007
Dedication of Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center at Ein Kerem
Elie Douer and Family Center for Pediatric Genetic and Chronic Diseases opens at Mount Scopus
2012
Opening of the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at Ein Kerem
2019
Cornerstone for the Rehabilitation Center at Mount Scopus
Lokomat - the advanced robotic treadmill for gait therapy - installed at the rehabilitation center
Opening of Wohl Institute for Translational Medical Research
2020
Hadassah Organoid Center Founded
2025
