The Hadassah University Medical Center has announced a generous gift from the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation of Beverly Hills, California for the Entrance Atrium to the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower, currently under construction on Hadassah’s Ein Kerem campus in Jerusalem.
Replacing a 50-year- old building, the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower will serve as the main hospitalization facility of Jerusalem. Its 19 floors will host all surgical and medical departments, as well as cardiac intensive care units, 20 operating rooms and healing gardens. The new building integrates Hadassah’s deep dedication to healing with science’s most advanced medical technologies.
Scheduled to be dedicated in March 2012, the 100th anniversary of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, this one million square foot state-of-the-art structure, endowed with sophisticated equipment and professional expertise, will enhance Hadassah's and Jerusalem’s standing as a leader in medicine, and a beacon of health in the Middle East.
“The David and Fela Shapell Family Gateway to Health, will welcome the more than 20,000 people that enter Hadassah’s Ein-Kerem campus every day,” said Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, Director General of the Hadassah University Medical Center.
“Over the years I have come to know David and Fela Shapell and I am continually awed by the depth of their commitment to the Jewish people in the United States and Israel,” Prof. Mor-Yosef said. “We are honored that they have chosen to continue their decades of support for Hadassah with this significant gift.”
“It is especially meaningful that Rochelle, Benjamin and Irvin Shapell have chosen to continue their parents’ tradition with a special memorial in the lobby of the main building honoring the memory of their grandparents who perished in the Shoah,” added Prof. Mor-Yosef. “David and Fela Shapell, their children and grandchildren, have a profound understanding of the legacy of the past and the promise of the future.