The Klausenberg Rebbe (Rabbi Yekutiel Yehudah Halberstam, of righteous memory) from the Sanz Chassidic dynasty, founded Sanz Medical Center - Laniado Hospital in 1976. He had lost his wife and eleven children in the Holocaust. The rabbi had a vision and initially received permission to open a maternity hospital to serve his community. Sanz Medical Center - Laniado Hospital is named after two brothers, Alphonse and Ya'akov Avraham Laniado, who were from the city of Haleb (Aleppo), Syria. They immigrated to Switzerland, where they managed a family bank. In their will, they specified that their estate be used to found a hospital named "Laniado" in Eretz Israel. The brothers provided the preliminary funds to found the hospital, while the remaining funds were collected by the Klausenberg Rebbe of the Sanz dynasty. In addition, a friends association has been established in Israel and around the world, headed by the "International Board of Trustees", which is responsible for the continued flow of funds to the various needs of the hospital. The hospital is a public non-profit institution under the supervision of an international board of trustees. The hospital is founded on Jewish law in every detail. Sanz Medical Center - Laniado Hospital never goes on strike, and treats every individual regardless of religion, race, or nationality. The medical center uses the most modern methods: its instruments, equipment, and expert staff have given the Sanz Medical Center its reputation as one of the leading hospitals in Israel. The Admor (the late Klausenberger Rebbe) expressed his vision for creating a hospital in his founding statement: "To strive as far as possible to ease the pain and suffering of the patients and to improve their emotional and spiritual state." Sanz Medical Center - Laniado Hospital has adopted as its motto the Admor's worldview: "The hospital will aid every person. In this hospital, the staff will work as professionals without forgetting the most important aspects of compassion, warmth, and empathy for the patient."