page_title: Straus Street
section_title: Medical organizations
hierarchical_section_title: Straus Street / Medical organizations
caption_attribution_description: English: Partial view of the Nathan and Lina Straus Health Centre on Straus Street, Jerusalem
context_page_description: Straus Street is a north-south road in north-central Jerusalem. It starts at Jaffa Road and extends to Kikar HaShabbat, which marks the intersection of five streets: Straus Street, Yeshayahu Street, Malkhei Yisrael Street, Yehezkel Street, and Mea Shearim Road. The street was named for Nathan Straus, a prominent American merchant and Jewish philanthropist in the early twentieth century.
context_section_description: Straus Street is home to several medical organizations. At the intersection of Straus Street and Street of the Prophets, on the southeast corner, stands the former German Hospital, built in 1894, which became the Bikur Holim Hospital in 1925. On the southwest corner stands a newer wing of Bikur Holim Hospital constructed between 1918 and 1925; this building is known for its three sets of double doors made of beaten copper depicting the twelve Tribes of Israel and biblical passages. On the northwest corner stands the former Israel Medical Association building, which today houses the Bikur Holim Hospital dialysis unit.
  Straus Street is also the site of the Nathan and Lina Straus Health Centre. Straus gave $250,000 toward the construction of the center and came to Palestine in March 1927 to lay the cornerstone. He gave the building over to Hadassah Medical Center when it opened in 1929. From 1953 to 1964 the center housed the first dental school in Israel, founded by Hadassah and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Today the center houses clinics for the Maccabi and Leumit health funds, and a sleep medicine laboratory associated with Hadassah.
  There is also a private Straus Medical Center at #28 Straus.
caption: Nathan and Lina Straus Health Centre
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