Rose G. Jacobs

Rose Gell Jacobs (1888-1975) was a founding member and two-term president of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.

Rose Gell Jacobs was born on September 10, 1888, in New York City.

In 1920, she served as acting president of Hadassah while Henrietta Szold was in Palestine.

During her second term, she committed Hadassah fundraising efforts to Youth Aliyah.

[3] After her terms as president, she was involved in the Hadassah Emergency Committee and the building of the Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital and Medical School on Mount Scopus.