Sonia Belkind

Sonia (Alexandra) Belkind (1870, Lahoysk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (Belarus) – September 20, 1943, Tel Aviv)[1][2][3] was the first gynecologist in Ottoman Palestine.

Upon completing her studies, she returned to Ottoman Palestine as a physician and worked at the Sha'ar Zion Hospital in Jaffa.

She was a member of the management at the "Shalva" convalescent home founded by her sister Olga Hankin in 1938 for patients with limited means.

[9][10] She opened a private clinic in Tel Aviv, where she treated Jews and Arabs, Christians, and Muslims, and was elected an honorary member of the Israel Medical Association.

Before her death, she bequeathed a sum of money for two purposes: establishing a rest home for elderly doctors in Rishon LeZion and completing the construction of the "Physicians' House" in Tel Aviv.