Friday, October 1, 194S
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Page Nineteen
Benefactor of Arab Masses
falls Victim to Arab Guns
American relatives, Haim Yassky
ods. In 1932 he studied medical
went to Geneva University
where he took his degree in med- administration and hospital con-
icine, specializing in ophthalmol- struction in the United States. '
After this he drew up a 10-
q- - . , T(• returned to Pale
- rte. t o year program of development
that resulted in the building of
By DAVID D. SPIGLER
the Hadassah-Hebrew University
DR. MAIM YASSKY, director of the Hadassali Medical Organiation
Hospital on Mount Scopus out-
in Palestine, was brutally murdered along with 7( members of
side Jerusalem. He was the chair-
his staff, patients, professors and technicians of the Hebrew Univer-
man of the Medical Centre
sity in an Arab attack upon a — — ----------
Building Committee and saw his
medical convoy outside Jerusa-
dream realized when the hospi-
He was indeed a fighter for
lem on April 13. Dr. Yassky was peace throughout his life—for
tal and medical center was op-
ened in 1939.
51 when he died a martyr's the peace and freedom from dis-
death with the word "Shalom" ease of his own people, as well
Next he turned his attention
on his lips.
to the need for a medical school,
as of the undernourished and
the work for which postponed
downtrodden peoples of the Mid-
during the war.
dle East.
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ROSH HASHONAH
The man who started his ca-
BRITISH GUILTY
reer
in
Palestine
as
sanitary
in-
GREETINGS ...
DR. YASSKY offered the serv-
spector of refuse collection in
ices of the Hadassah Hospital to
Jaffa, was probably more re-
the Middle East command dur.
sponsible than any other indi-
ing the war. The British author-
vidual for bringing the Jewish
ities who are today covered with
DK. HAIM YASSKY
infant mortality rate in Pales-
• • •
the blood guilt of his murder
tine down to the lowest figure
in the world.
1921, and immediately volunteer- were quick to accept his offer at
• • •
ed his services as ophthalmolo- 'hat-time.
When the convoy with which
gist
to the Hadassah Eye Clinic
11301 JOS. CAMPAU
BORN IN ODESSA
in Haifa. '
Dr. Yassky was travelling was
HAIM
YASSKY
was
born
in
TO. 6-9320
Dr. Yassky's first Hadassah attacked, British troops were 200
Odessa, in November, 1896. He
•
appointment
was as male eyc -aids away. Not only did they
was an early convert to Zionist
not lift a finger to stop the mas-
nurse
to
the
Jewish
schools
it
ideology. In 1919 at the age of
sacre but they prevented the
22, he landed in Jaffa with his Haifa. Later he became deputy 7- Iaganah from going to the res-
director
of
the
eye
clinic.
While
young wife, Fanya Gorodetsky,
cue. There was no intervention
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with only a provisional diploma in this post, he once contracted until 76 Jews had been killed
in medicine from the University a dangerous and painful eye dis- and 20 wounded.
of Odessa, which was not rec- ease himself. Despite' his own
serious condition he continued to
ognized in Palestine.
care for 50 to /IN patients daily, Poles Order Germans
It was at this point that he
as
well as perform operations.
took the job as sanitary inspec-
• • • •
to Restore Tombstones
tor in Jaffa, a position he soon
ERADICATES
DISEASE
WARSAW, POLAND (WNS)—
MOTOR SALES
lost because of his incessant de-
IN 1924, while acting director The ministry of justice has de-
mand for improved conditions.
2475 W. Grand Blvd.
The Yasskys then lived for a of the Hadassah Hospital in Tel -reed that German war prisoners
time on the income from English Aviv, Dr. Yassky was assigned will have to collect all Jewish
TY. 4-5704
and French lessons given by Mrs. to investigate trachoma, then tombstones from the town of
rampant among the Jewish set- Siorpe and deliver them to the
Yassky,
tlements.
Jewish cemetery. They were re-
In 1920, with the help of
His 'outstanding work in this moved during the war and used
field, resulted in the virtual erad- for paving streets.
•
ication of trachoma among Jew-
ish children in Palestine, and its
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sharp reduction among Arab
children in the country, while
in other parts of the Middle East
it remains a blinding scourge. He
received international recogni-
tion for his fight against tra-
choma and his methods are now
being used in other parts of the
world.
Dr. Yassky reluctantly gave
up his practical medical work in
1928, when he was appointed as-
14335 Second
sistant to the director of Hadas-
sah. In this post he began to
reorganize the public health serv-
ices in Palestine, while at the
same time coping with the prob-
AS ALWAYS ...
lem of a reduced budget.
It's the Season's Best to You
On several occasions Dr. Yas-
By Best Wishes to
sky travelled abroad to improve
And Always the Best at the
his knowledge of medical meth
HAMTRAMCK
OUTFITTING
CO.
II ETTCIIE
Israel Maps Program
to Expand Highways
CHICAGO (Z0A)—Top prior-
ity will be given to road build-
ing in Israel when the present
hostilities end, David Sandler of
Tel Aviv told the recent conven-
tion of the American Road
Builders Association here.
None of the routes of the high-
way system, he said, would be
less than 30 feet wide and all
would be laid old to withstand
the strain of heavy commercial
traffic.
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