Ruth Popkin (13 June 1913 – 2 January 2015) led Hadassah and the Jewish National Fund.^[1] In 1978 she was co-chair of Hadassah’s first national convention in Israel.^[2] She was president of Hadassah from 1984 to 1988 and served as a Hadassah delegate to seven Zionist Congresses from 1966 to 2002.^[2] She was president of the Jewish National Fund from 1989 until 1993.^[3]

She was also the first woman to be Chair of the Presidium and President of the World Zionist Congress, being elected to both positions in 1987.^[2]

The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine has a Ruth and Morris Popkin Chair in Health Administration, and the dining room at the Hadassah Neurim Youth Village is named for Ruth Popkin.^[2]