The B’nai Zion fraternal organization is planning to establish a number of new medical facilities in Israel, delegates at the 54th annual convention here were told today at the opening session.
Dr. Harris J. Levine, honorary president of the Jewish National Fund, said one of the projects would be a new polyclinic at Ramat Gan, to be opened this summer. The clinic will provide facilities for 1,000 patients daily. He also reported that a Diagnostic Clinic would be set up in Tel Aviv on a site provided by the municipality. The clinic will be named for the late Dr. L. Efron, a key figure in the General Zionist Sick Fund in Israel.
He said that during the past year, a clinic bearing the name of the Theoder Herzl chapter of B’nai Zion, was opened in Herzliah, and is providing services for 75 patients daily. He also reported that the B’nai Zion was contributing toward a project in Israel for retarded children which Israel was undertaking at the request of UNESCO. Two buildings to be known as the Batei B’nai Zion, will be built in Jerusalem. One will be a therapy center, the other will be a dormitory for children receiving the treatment.
Projects planned by the B’nai Zion Foundation were listed as Bnai Yehuda sports center in Tel Aviv, a center in Kfar B’nai Zion to be named for Herman Z. Quittman, secretary of the organization; a center in Ashdod under sponsorship of the B’nai Zion Westchester chapter; a center in Kiryat Gat; and a center in Jerusalem for sports activities.
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