Breaking News from JTA Israel's Public Utility Authority granted the first-ever license for a solar project in the Bedouin community that is being funded by the U.S. government. Rick Santorum won three contests in the race for the Republican nod for the presidency. The Jewish owner of a real estate company in New York is donating his $50,000 winnings from a Super Bowl bet to charity. Four people were charged with hate crimes in an assault on a Jewish man in New York State. A Chasidic teenager pleaded guilty to assault in the firebombing of the home of a neighbor over a religious disagreement. Delta Airlines removed the phrase "Occupied Palestinian Territories" from its list of Middle East destinations. Israeli workers launched an open-ended general strike. George Clooney is expected to star in a film about U.S. and British art experts who tracked down Nazi-looted artworks, mainly from Jewish owners. Orthodox Jews have appealed to a court in Sydney to overturn a decision to deny them an eruv. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reconfirmed his commitment to a two-state solution during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington.
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What would an attack on Israel look like? (video)
By Uriel Heilman
A video called "The Last Day" that imagines what a future attack on Israel might look like is going viral, with more than 100,000 views since it was uploaded 10 days ago. Read more »
Israel grants Bedouin community its first solar field license
By Marcy Oster
Israel's Public Utility Authority granted the first-ever license for a solar project in the Bedouin community that is being funded by the U.S. government. Read more »
Chasidic teen pleads guilty to firebombing attack
By Marcy Oster
A Chasidic teenager pleaded guilty to assault in the firebombing of the home of a neighbor over a religious disagreement. Read more »
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Hadassah News Hadassah Joins Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign
Today, in honor of Tu B'Shvat, Hadassah reaffirms its commitment to the environment and proudly announces its participation in the Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign. As part of the campaign, 50 Jewish community leaders have signed on to the "Jewish Environment and Energy Imperative" declaration. Brooklyn Region President Gail Hammerman (third from the right) represented Hadassah at the declaration signing earlier this week. Read more >> American CEOs get an Israeli medical education in their visit to the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower. 
Read the story>> AIPAC visit
On a mission sponsored by the American Israel Educational Foundation of AIPAC, a delegation of African-American decision and policy makers visited the Hadassah University Medical Center. The delegation included State Representatives and City Council members from Birmingham AL, Atlanta GA and Columbia SC, as well media representatives and personalities, attorneys, bank officials and real estate entrepreneurs.During their visit they met with Rita Avramov, Head of Hadassah's Social Work Services and toured the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and the Shock Trauma Unit. They are pictured in the lobby of the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center on Hadassah's Ein Kerem campus. Check out the latest from Shalem program youngsters on year Course! You might even want to sign up!!!
 Read the stories >> UN First Lady Visits Hadassah
University Medical Center
Photo Credit: Avi Hayun
During her first visit to Israel, Ms. Yoo Soon-Taek, wife of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, toured the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem where she visited with some of the children in the Dept. of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and their families. She is pictured with 16-year-old Chaled and his father of East Jerusalem, and Department Head Dr. Mickey Weintraub. During her tour, Ms. Yoo also met with Prof. Dan Engelhard, Head of Pediatrics at Hadassah-Ein Kerem, who described Hadassah's many outreach programs, especially the one he established in Ethiopian orphanages for children with HIV/AIDS. She concluded her tour at the Braun Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Public Health and Community Medicine where Dean Prof. Orly Manor, introduced her to the members of this years International Master's in Public Health Program.
Check out hadassah.org/hmedicine for more on Hadassah's extraordinary work.
Hadassah Foundation Announces
More Than $280,000 In Grants
Read Press Release >> Reauthorize The Violence Against
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Hadassah University Medical Center Hosts Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion
Two Israeli Arab children who received bone marrow transplants a year ago recently met with their Israeli Arab donors at a reunion hosted by the Hadassah University Medical Center.
The bone marrow transplant recipients (18-month-old Muhamad and8-year-old Hala) with Hadassah's Dr. Amal Bishara, who manages theBone Marrow Registry; their donors (21-year-old Maharan and 42-year-old Muhamad), and Hadassah Tissue Typing Registry Staff
Read More >> The Countdown Continues
7 WEEKS UNTIL MOVING-IN DAY
"The Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower is not just a new facility for Hadassah – it is a new concept in hospitalization, it is about a new attitude. The Tower's spacious patient rooms, treatment rooms and consultation rooms among its many other features, will facilitate individualized treatment models for each patient."
Prof. Rephael Zeltser, Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower
7th Floor, West Wing, Patient Day Room "What is exceptional about Hadassah's Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department is our multidisciplinary approach. Each patient is treated by a complete team, saving the patients from pursuing separate consultations with each specialist. We work in close collaboration with surgeons from the ENT Department and the Department of Plastic Surgery and often perform operations together. The grouping of the ENT, Plastic Surgery and Maxillofacial Departments together in the East Wing of the Davidson Tower's Seventh Floor will enhance our interaction and encourage the best of the multidisciplinary approach to flourish."
Stay with us as we countdown to March 19 and Moving-In Day! Read How they Do It Down Under!
Centennial news from Hadassah Australia in their Jewish press >> Hadassah's Top Doc Looks To Future
Dr. Ehud Kokia on the soon-to-open new tower, the just-ended doctors' strike and the position of physicians in Israeli society.
Read the Jewish Week article >> Ambassador Daniel Shapiro
And His Family Visit Ein Kerem
Flanked by his wife, Julie Fisher, and Prof. Ehud Kokia, Director General of the Hadassah Medical Organization, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro displays the replicas of ancient medical instruments presented as a memento of today's visit to Hadassah-Ein Kerem. "We look at Hadassah as the premier medical institution in Israel and a shining example of American-Israeli cooperation," Ambassador Shapiro told Prof. Kokia. Ambassador Shapiro was also presented with his Associates pin at a ceremony in the Abbell Synagogue.
 In the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Hadassah-Ein Kerem, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro and Prof. Ehud Kokia (right), Director General of the Hadassah University Medical Center, visit with 18-year-old Ismail and his father, Ibrihim, from Gaza.
Our Newest Associate!
Ambassador Shapiro was also presented with his Associates pin by Barbara Goldstein, Deputy Director of Hadassah Office in Israel at a ceremony in the Abbell Synagogue. During their visit, the Ambassador, his wife and her mother, Jane Fisher, past president of Hadassah's Duluth, Minnesota chapter, toured the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, where they spoke with several young patients – 13-year-old Orr from Jerusalem and 18-year-old Ismail from Gaza – and had a preview of the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower, scheduled to receive its first patients on March 19, less than two months from now. Thank The White House For Supporting Preventive Health Coverage
Opponents of HHS's contraceptive coverage decision have not given up—filing court cases and lobbying Congress to overturn the ruling. Show your support for reproductive rights and thank the White House for supporting women's access to preventive health coverage! Diary of a Director General:
A Long and Winding Road
The weather seemed to be sending me a personal message the foggy, misty morning I returned to Hadassah after more than a week abroad. Low clouds hung over the narrow, winding two-lane descent that brings me to Ein Kerem and it was difficult to see the road ahead. Suddenly, the sun broke through, shining directly on our Ein Kerem campus, spotlighting the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower.
Read Prof. Ehud Kokia's diary >>
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