The impact of German Jewish physicians and German medicine on the origins and development of the medical faculty of the Hebrew University.

As we have shown, doctors from Central Europe, or at least trained in the Central European medical tradition, played an important role in the development of medicine at the Hebrew University Medical School, from its origins as the Hadassah-Rothchild Hospital to the present-day faculty of medicine. Although with Hadassah's involvement the American influence became more conspicuous, especially after 1945, the central European system remained important regarding manpower and innovative ideas. Many Jewish doctors who had trained in central Europe and had emigrated to Palestine had been leading figures in medical innovations in their home countries. In Israel they combined the German/Austrian medical tradition with the new American influence, which eventually became the most prominent.