Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America

Fact box:

• Founded: 1912
• Founder: Henrietta Szold
• HQ: New York, NY

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, operates as one of the major US Jewish women's organizations and the sponsoring organization of Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem. The institutional architecture combines US-based membership, fundraising, and governance activity with Israeli-based hospital operations through HMO.

The institutional history extends to 1912 with Henrietta Szold's founding of Hadassah as a women's Zionist organization committed to building Jewish-community health infrastructure in pre-state Mandatory Palestine. The 1918 founding of the first Hadassah hospital operations in Jerusalem anchored the institutional commitment that continues through Hadassah Medical Organization today.

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