24 Facts About Kalman Mann

Kalman Jacob Mann was an Israeli physician specializing in pulmonology, and the eighth and longest-serving director general of the Hadassah Medical Organization.

Kalman Mann sat on 14 different government committees, influencing Israeli health-care legislation.

Kalman Jacob Mann was born in Jerusalem to Yitzhak David Mann and his wife, Chaya, both Orthodox Jews.

Kalman Mann received both a secular and a Talmudic education during his youth, studying in the Tachkemoni School and earning a teacher's diploma at the Mizrahi Teachers Seminary.

Kalman Mann's father agreed, whereupon he completed his preliminary studies at Chelsea Polytechnic and, that same year, entered University College Hospital Medical School.

Kalman Mann married his first wife, Sylvia Gamse, in 1940.

Kalman Mann was drafted into the emergency medical corps in World War II and served as a resuscitation officer at RAF Hendon, where he tended to pulmonary cases.

Kalman Mann became involved in Zionist activities as chairman of the Friends of the Jerusalem University in Cardiff and chairman of the Zionist organization in Queensbury, London.

Kalman Mann returned to Jerusalem with his wife and two children in 1949 to accept a medical post at Hadassah Hospital.

Kalman Mann was instead offered an administrative position as deputy to the director general of Hadassah, Eli Davis, which he accepted.

In early 1951, when Davis announced his resignation to return to general practice, Kalman Mann was named his successor.

Kalman Mann proved to be a visionary director and successful fund-raiser, turning Hadassah from an institution crippled by war to one of the world's leading centers of medicine, teaching, and research.

Kalman Mann opened four out of the eventual five professional schools on that campus: pharmacology, dentistry, occupational therapy, and public health.

On June 6,1967, a day after Israel gained Mount Scopus in the Six-Day War, Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek called Kalman Mann and told him, "If you want your hospital, come and get it".

Kalman Mann developed a "community based outreach health centre" at Kiryat Yovel.

Over his three decades of leadership, Kalman Mann managed a budget that increased from $2.3 million to $93 million.

Kalman Mann collected most of the funds for his projects from Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.

Kalman Mann retired from Hadassah on September 1,1981, making him the longest-serving director general of the HMO; he served under ten presidents.

Kalman Mann immediately undertook a full-time position as chairman of the Yad Sarah medical equipment lending organization, with which he had been involved on a volunteer basis since 1977.

In 1970 Kalman Mann was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Kalman Mann married his first wife, Sylvia, in London in 1940.

Kalman Mann married his second wife, Bluma, on January 16,1995.

Kalman and Bluma Mann were seriously injured in two automobile accidents, one on April 24,1996, and a second on February 28,1997.

Kalman Mann died of his injuries from the second accident on March 14,1997, at the Hadassah Medical Center at Ein Kerem.