Ein Karem is a historic mountain village southwest of Jerusalem, presently a neighborhood in the outskirts of the modern city, within the Jerusalem District. It is the site of the Hadassah Medical Center.
View of Ein Karem
Ein Karem
Ain Karim in 1681 by Cornelis de Bruijn
Ain Karim area in the 1870s
Hadassah Medical Center is an Israeli medical organization established in 1934 that operates two university hospitals in Jerusalem as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacology affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Its declared mission is to extend a "hand to all, without regard for race, religion or ethnic origin."
Hadassah in Ein Karem, Jerusalem, the second campus of the Hadassah Medical Center
Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
The Beit Hadassah building in Hebron dates back to 1893 and was one of the first Hadassah clinics in the country.
Nurses and physicians from the American Zionist Medical Unit on camels in Egypt en route to Palestine in July 1918