CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- Introduction: Kupat Holim Then and Now -- 1. Health Services in Eretz Israel (Palestine) in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Workers� Health Fund: Ideology and Beginnings, 1903-1914 -- 3. The Workers� Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. The General Health Fund of Workers in Israel: Kupat Holim -- 6. According to Needs or According to Ability: Kupat Holim, 1924-1930
7. Confrontation and Cooperation Between Kupat Holim and Hadassah, 1920-1930 8. The Emek (Jezreel Valley) Hospital -- 9. Kupat Holim and the British Mandate Government -- 10. Kupat Holim and the Federation of Labor: Reciprocal Membership and the Joint Dues -- Epilogue: Summary and Conclusions -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary
The first study to research the history of the health funds established by Jewish laborers in Israel
