A decision to raise $150,000 for a cancer research foundation at the Hebrew University was adopted here today at the 19th biennial convention of the Canadian Hadassah-Wizo organization which opened last night with a convocation by Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim. Mrs. Harry Cohen was re-elected president of the organization.
The more than 540 delegates to the ten-day convention heard Finance Minister Levi Eshkol deliver a report on Israel’s new economic policy in which he said that the Canadian group would benefit from the change in Israel’s rate of foreign exchange since their contributed funds would go farther.
The Convention delegates later participated in the dedication of Vincent Massey Hall at the Jewish National and University Library, where Professor G. Racah, rector of the university, paid tribute to the former Governor General of Canada, for whom the facility is named. In a message read to the delegates, Mr. Massey expressed his gratitude for the honor.
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