Posted on 03/30/2005 12:40:03 PM PST by Nachum
Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital received a $50 million donation last week from one of the people born there – famed Jewish actress Natalie Portman.
Portman’s donation is earmarked for an improved and expanded emergency trauma center being funded by the Hadassah Women's Zionist movement. The expansion will enable three times as many victims to be treated at once.
At a ceremony Thursday evening at the Jerusalem Theater, Dr. Kobi Assaf, Hadassah Hospitals’ director of surgery and shock trauma said the expansion of the trauma center will save many lives. "One of the most crucial things we can do for trauma patients is treat them quickly," he said. "The new unit is arranged specifically to do that - everything we need to treat them is right here."
The old center could handle 23,000 admissions a year, but demand rose to 73,000 due to Arab terrorism as well as an increase in car accidents.
23-year-old Portman, whose family name is Hershlag, was born in Israel, and her father worked as a doctor in Jerusalem. She spent last summer studying Jewish History at the Hebrew University.
While studying at Harvard University, Portman wrote an open letter defending Israeli security policies after a pro-PLO student attacked Israel in the campus newpaper. She also frequently paid visits to Israeli victims of terrorism in hospitals during the course of the Oslo War.
And she's still a lefty. *sigh*
She campaigned for Kerry didnt she?
Indeed.
A very classy thing to do.
Good for her and Hadassah.
Natalie Portman ping.
"She campaigned for Kerry didnt she?"
She did. And now she has donated a huge pile of money to an Israeli hospital. So? Good for her.
I find it very very very unlikely she could have even earned any thing like 50 mill before taxes for all her movies alone, much less donate it...unless she is a secret stock market whiz.
If she gets residuals from the SW films she could have.
Pleasant surprise from an otherwise disappointing young woman.
Dan
She's a Hollywood leftist puke.
Yes she did. This is a wonderful cause though. Too bad she can't get off the democratic kool-aid long enough to get her head on straight. They have raised her in Hollywood to be a good and generous socialist.
So they should give back the money?
Some of you need to take a deep breath, sit down and realize you can be a liberal Democrat AND still be a good person.
I said she's Hollywood leftist puke. Did I even mention the money?
I want her agent, how did she get a percentage of the Star Wars reciepts?
The subject of this thread is her giving a sizable charitable donation to a hospital. That's the context your statement is taken in.
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