page_title: ALYN Hospital
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: ALYN Hospital / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Disabled Children from Netivot and the surrounding moshavim (hit by polio) attended a summer camp organized by the Alyn Branch in Netivot עברית: ילדי נתיבות והאזור שלקו במחלת הפוליו השתתפו בקייטנה שארגן עבורם סניף אלי"ן נתיבות, Original Image Name:קייטנת אלי"ן, Notes:יישובי להבה, הועלה ע"י צביה ויצחק רוט, Location:מרכז שפירא
context_page_description: ALYN Hospital is a comprehensive rehabilitation center for physically challenged and disabled children, adolescents and young adults. Located in Jerusalem, Israel, ALYN is a private, nonprofit facility and treats all patients, regardless of religious belief, nationality or ethnic background.
context_section_description: ALYN Hospital was founded in 1932 by an American orthopedist, Dr. Henry Keller, who dedicated his life to voluntary work amongst physically challenged children in Jerusalem.
  Following a polio epidemic in Israel in the 1940s and 1950s, the Ministry of Health provided ALYN with an old monastery building in Katamon that was used as a treatment center, residence and school for 200 children suffering polio.
  In 1971, a donation by Malcolm and Dorothy Woldenberg made possible the building in the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood of Jerusalem of the ALYN Woldenberg Family Hospital, a modern hospital and rehabilitation facility.
  Today, ALYN Hospital is one of the world's leading hospitals specializing in the active and intensive rehabilitation of children who are afflicted with a broad range of physical disabilities.
caption: Alyn day camp, 1965
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