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In 1939 Hadassah moved to a new medical center on Mount Scopus. There, for a time, Arab royalty from Jordan. Iraq and Saudi Arabia got modern medical treatment unavailable in their homelands. But the 1948-49 war left Mount Scopus a no man's land, and the medical center sits empty. The new hospital at Ein Karim, designed by Austrian-born Architect Joseph Neufeld, is needed to replace it. To save nurses' steps, the main patient building is semicircular. Two of its nine floors are underground, in case Ein Karim too becomes a battleground. For its synagogue Marc Chagall has designed $120,000 stained-glass windows, to represent each of the Twelve Tribes.
The women of Hadassah have by now raised a total of almost $200 million, two-thirds of which has gone for medical services. Israel has 4,700 physicians—the world's highest doctor-patient ratio—and a fine school for training new ones.