Hadassah and Kupat Cholim: The Control of Health Services in the Yishuv


 

Publication Date: September 1979

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America)

Author(s): Rubin Schindler

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Health; History

Type: Report

Coverage: Israel

Abstract:

The author examines the history of health care services in the Yishuv (the Jewish communal infrastructure in the modern pre-state land of Israel). He focuses on the competition between the American-based philanthropic organization Hadassah and the Yishuv-based, labor-affiliated group Kupat Cholim.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.56 no.1, Fall 1979.