"[2] The hospital was founded by the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America, which continues to underwrite a large part of its budget today.

[4] They set up a small public health station in Jerusalem to provide maternity care and treat trachoma, a dreaded eye disease rampant in the Middle East.

[4] During the First World War the Ottoman authorities suspected Jews of sympathies with the enemy and in 1915 the Hadassah Nurses station had to close down due to official pressure.

This disinterested philanthropy of Hadassah deserves recognition: it was a real step towards the promotion of good feeling between the two races; but unhappily the effect of its work was impaired by other influences.

An alternative set of locations in West Jerusalem were adopted by the evacuated medical staff for continuing their activity.

During the Six-Day War, Israel conquered the entire area around Mount Scopus and the old medical campus was eventually reactivated.

[16] Due to an accumulated deficit of over 1 billion NIS, at the request of the medical center's management, the Israeli court declared 3 months of suspension of proceedings starting February 2014.

It is planned that 10% of the income generated by Israel's Hadassah medical center in Skolkovo will be directed to research activities in the field of oncology.

[20][21] On July 11, 2021, Ze'ev Rotstein [he], who served as Hadassah Medical Center CEO since 2015, tendered his resignation prior to facing possible disciplinary action by the board of directors.

In late 2022, Dr. Mahajna, a Palestinian-Israeli cardiologist, found himself suspended from Hadassah Medical Center following allegations that he had provided food to a supposed terrorist and referred to him as a "martyr."

With over 300 beds and 30 departments and clinics, including a rehabilitation building and a hospice, the hospital serves all populations in Jerusalem without distinction.

[28] In 2011, the Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman, who was born at Hadassah Mount Scopus, starred in a fundraising campaign for the hospital.

In 1961, a new medical complex was built in Ein Karem in southwest Jerusalem under the direction of then-director general Kalman Mann.

The hospital complex consists of 22 buildings, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health and pharmacology.

Since February 27th 2025, the Red Line of the Jerusalem Light Rail serves the campus with two stations : one for the Medical School, another for the main entrance of the hospital.

[34][35] The Ein Karem campus synagogue is illuminated by stained glass windows depicting the twelve tribes of Israel, created by Marc Chagall.

The thoughts have nested in me for many years, since the time when my feet walked on the Holy Land, when I prepared myself to create engravings of the Bible.