Yassky, Chaim

Yassky, Chaim
(1896-1948)
   Palestine medical administrator. Born in Russia, he went to Palestine in the 1920s. He worked for the Hadassah Medical Organization and helped initiate the construction of the Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus. In 1931 he became director of Hadassah.

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