54 Friday, July 23, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Dr. Joseph Kott, President of Magen David Adom Dies
NEW YORK — Dr. Jo-.
seph Kott, president of Ma-
gen David Adorn, Israel's
Red Cross equivalent, died
in Tel Aviv July 14, at age
78.
Dr. Kott was chairman of
the Magen David Adorn
Executive Committee for
more than two decades and
was appointed MDA na-
tional president in 1973. He
had a leading part in plan-
ning and directing the un-
precedented growth of MDA
in Israel it took on new
tasks and expanded its
emergency medical health
and blood services to meet
the growing needs of the
country and its population.
In 1972, Dr. Kott visited
American Red Magen David
for Israel (ARMDI) touring
the United States exten-
sively and inspecting var-
ious important blood cen-
ters and hospitals
specializing in emergency
medical rescue programs in
order to implement modern
techniques and new ideas
into the current MDA pro-
grams and facilities.
Dr. Kott was born in
Lithuania in 1898 and re-
ceived his medical train-
ing in Russia and Ger-
many. He emigrated to
Palestine in 1925, practic-
ing medicine in Upper Gal-
ilee and pioneered the
fight against malaria. His
reputation and popularity
reached the Arabs living
in the area and many trav-
eled miles to be treated by
him. In 1936 he became
head of the medical serv-
ices of the Hagana, thus
laying the foundation of
the medical corps of the Is-
rael Defense Forces.
Dr. Kott became asso-
ciated with Magen David
Adorn in 1933. As one of its
most active volunteers he
Susan Rosefield
Susan Rosefield, an active
member of Jewish women's
organizations, died July 21
at age 77.
Born in London, Ontario,
Mrs. Rosefield lived 76 years
in Detroit. She was a mem-
ber of Hadassah and Music
Study Club.
She leaves her husband,
Dr. John L.; a son, Ronald
Ross of Los Angeles, Calif.;
a sister, Mrs. Freda
Schwarzburg of Long Is-
land, N.Y.; and two grand-
sons. Services 11:30 a.m.
today at Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
The Hebrew Union College
helped establish first aid
training centers, lectured on
first aid and preventive
medicine and in 1950 was
elected chairman of the
MDA executive committee.
He carried out numerous
missions of national import-
ance: after the Second
World War, he was sent to
Europe by the Jewish
Agency to provide medical
rehabilitation for the survi-
vors of the Holocaust in Dis-
placed Persons camps and
to help prepare them for
emigration to the homeland.
He also made important
contributions to the develop-
ment of physiotherapy, in-
dustrial medicine and reha-
bilitation of invalids in
Israel.
Despite all his activities,
he devoted his energies to
MDA planning and super-
vising its country-wide oper-
ation and maintaining close
links with the national and
local government of Israel,
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the Israel Defense Forces,
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the Civil Defense Corps, the
JERUSALEM — While national and international
The Jerusalem campus of Reform Judaism'
Arab terrorists were hold- medical organizations and brew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religk
ing 250 hostages at Entebbe the International Red Cross. shown in this Israel Digest photograph.
Airport in Uganda, Hadas-
sah dedicated a new cancer
institute in Jerusalem that
will benefit both Jews and
Arabs.
Arab refugees will be
among the patients treated
by the modern facilities of
the Siegfried and Irma Ull-
mann Building for Cancer
and Allied Disease which
opened at the Hadassah
Medical Center June 27.
Arab refugees suffering
from cancer have been
treated since the Six-Day.
War at Hadassah for a nom-
inal fee, under an arrange-
ment with UNRWA and the
Lutheran Auguste Victoria
Hospital. Other cancer pa-
tients were admitted to
Hadassah Hospital from
countries officially at war
with Israel.
Speaking at the dedica-
tion ceremony, former For-
eign Minister Abba Eban,
now a Knesset member,
said: "Israel must integrate
into the Mideast of which it
is a vital part. We must get
to know the Arab world and
must become familiar with
Arab culture. But we must
seek to conduct this dia-
logue without making any
apology."
In a tribute to the late
Premier Moshe Sharett,
for whom the new cancer
institute is named, Health
Minister Victor Shemtov
said: "During this diffi-
cult period through which
the state of Israel is pass-
ing, I recall that Moshe
Sharett advocated a real-
istic and constructive ap-
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proach to the Arab ques-
tion, and endeavored,
stamps, envelopes and get
through wisdom and mod-
eration, to find a path to-
tired addressing them.
ward a conceptual under-
standing between Zionism
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and our Arab neighbors."
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