Carol Ann Schwartz, President of Hadassah International and The Women’s Zionist Organization of America visited Argentina

Our Deputy Chief of Mission Adam Levene was present at the breakfast organized by the President of the Argentine-Israeli Chamber of Commerce, Mario Montoto, in honor of Carol Ann Schwartz, President of Hadassah International and The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, at the Hotel Emperador. Authorities, prominent business people, and professionals from the medical, technological, and pharmaceutical sectors participated.

Carol Ann Schwartz belongs to a family that has been connected to Hadassah for four generations, accumulating more than 30 years of service in the organization. In her hometown of Cincinnati, USA, she has held leadership roles as a board member of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, the Jewish National Fund, Hillel University, among other projects, and has been an executive at the real estate company The Morris Investment Company for three decades. Carol Ann has led the campaign “END The Silence,” which aims to raise awareness about sexual abuses used as a weapon of war against Jewish women by Hamas during the massacre on October 7th and to demand condemnation from the United Nations.

During the breakfast, the current war situation in Israel and the tragic October 7th were referenced. The need for medical centers to continue expanding was emphasized, particularly the new Gandel Rehabilitation Center at Hadassah Mount Scopus, inaugurated on January 17, 2024, to provide treatment and rapid recovery to those affected.

The Gandel Rehabilitation Center, with its 28,000 square meters, includes the first department for war injuries that offers hospital care, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, therapy, and hydrotherapy, using advanced technologies that, for the first time in Israel, combine physical and emotional therapy. The first patients, war-wounded, began their recovery in the new center, in a department equipped with advanced systems specially designed for them.