B'nai B'rith-Sha'ar Zion Hospital in Jaffa (1891-1921): the first Jewish community hospital in Palestine

The Sha'ar Zion was launched in Jaffa in 1890 as a branch of the World B'nai B'rith Organization and established the first Jewish community hospital in Palestine a year later. The organization rented a three-room building as headquarters for its community medical service. When a malaria epidemic broke a few months later, this facility proved to be inadequate and a two-story, 18-room building was rented thereafter. It housed a clinic, an apothecary, a kitchen and hospital beds. It closed in 1921.