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Chaim Yassky (1896-1948) was a physician
Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
 and medical administrator in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. He was killed in the Arab attack on a medical convoy bringing supplies to Hadassah
Hadassah

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jews Zionism volunteer List of women's organizations. Founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it is now one of the largest Jewish organizations in the United States by membership....
 Hospital on Mount Scopus
Mount Scopus

Mount Scopus is a mountain in northeast Jerusalem, Israel. Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity....
.
ky was born in Kishinev, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. While studying medicine at the University of Odessa
Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
, he became active in the Zionist movement. Before World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 he took part in Jewish self-defense against pogromists in Odessa.

In 1920, Yassky immigrated to Palestine, where he was appointed district physician of Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....
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Chaim Yassky (1896-1948) was a physician
Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
 and medical administrator in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. He was killed in the Arab attack on a medical convoy bringing supplies to Hadassah
Hadassah

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jews Zionism volunteer List of women's organizations. Founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it is now one of the largest Jewish organizations in the United States by membership....
 Hospital on Mount Scopus
Mount Scopus

Mount Scopus is a mountain in northeast Jerusalem, Israel. Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity....
.

Biography

Yassky was born in Kishinev, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. While studying medicine at the University of Odessa
Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
, he became active in the Zionist movement. Before World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 he took part in Jewish self-defense against pogromists in Odessa.

In 1920, Yassky immigrated to Palestine, where he was appointed district physician of Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....
. As an ophthalmologist, he initiated programs to eradicate trachoma
Trachoma

Trachoma is an infectious eye disease, and the leading cause of the world's infectious blindness. Globally, 84 million people suffer from active infection and nearly 8 million people are visually impaired as a result of this disease....
. In 1931, Yassky became director of the Hadassah
Hadassah

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jews Zionism volunteer List of women's organizations. Founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it is now one of the largest Jewish organizations in the United States by membership....
 organization. He was one of the driving spirits behind the establishment of the Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus.

Yassky was killed in the Hadassah medical convoy massacre
Hadassah medical convoy massacre

The Hadassah medical convoy massacre took place on April 13, 1948, when a civilian convoy, escorted by Haganah militia, bringing medical and fortification supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was ambushed by Arab forces....
 during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
, approximately one month before Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's declaration of independence.
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

The Israeli Declaration of Independence , made on 14 May 1948 , the day the British Mandate of Palestine expired, was the official announcement that the new Jewish state named the Israel had been formally established in parts of what was known as the British Mandate for Palestine and on land where, in antiquity, the Kingdoms of Kingdom of I...