Dr. Sarah Bavly | |
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| Born | October 18, 1900 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 1993 (age 92–93) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality | Dutch, Israeli |
| Other names | Sara Bavli |
| Education | M.S., chemistry, University of Amsterdam M.S., Columbia University Teachers College, 1929 PhD, nutrition, Columbia University Teachers College, 1947 |
| Spouse | Dr. Yehuda Meir Bromberg |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nutrition, chemistry |
| Institutions | Hadassah Medical Center College of Nutrition and Home Economics |
| Thesis | Family Food Consumption in Palestine: A comparison of consumption by the Jewish urban population in 1943 and in 1946, and a study of methods conducive to improvement of food selection (1948) |
Sarah Bavly (Hebrew: שרה בבלי, also spelled Sara Bavli) (October 18, 1900 – 1993)[1] was a Dutch–Israeli nutritionist, educator, researcher, and author. Having immigrated from the Netherlands to British Mandatory Palestine in 1926, she became the chief dietitian for Hadassah hospitals and head of Hadassah's school lunch program. Her 1939 book Tzunatenu (Our Nutrition) was a standard elementary-school textbook for nearly 30 years. She founded and directed the Institute of Nutrition Education in 1952 and was founder and dean of the College of Nutrition and Home Economics in Jerusalem from 1953 to 1965. After her retirement, she continued to engage in research and conducted periodic nutrition surveys for the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.