Meshulam Riklis has donated $250,000 – a portion of which was contributed by his friends – toward the construction of the Hadassah Youth Center atop Mount Scopus, in Jerusalem. This was announced today by Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson, national president of Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization of America. The building of the Hadassah Youth Center, Mrs. Jacobson disclosed, will be named in honor of Mrs. Judith Riklis, the donor’s wife.
Mrs. Jacobson said architects are now working on plans for the Hadassah Youth Center, and that building operations are expected to begin within the next two months. It will accommodate Jewish youth from the United States and other countries who come to work and study in Israel as part of programs ranging from six months to one year. The center will be located near Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, which had stood empty for 19 years, and was regained by Hadassah following Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War.
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