A memorial stone over the grave of Professor Boris Schatz, founder and first director of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts here, who died in America two years ago, was unveiled in the Mount of Olives cemetery in the presence of a distinguished gathering. The tomb adjoins that of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
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