The conclusion of an agreement for a $500,000 construction project by the National Council of Jewish Women for the building of classes and laboratories for 800 pupils and 100 teachers of the Hebrew University’s Model High School in Jerusalem was announced here today by Mrs. Charles Hymes, NCJW president. The site of the new structures has been selected in consultation with the Hebrew University and given to the school by the Israel Government.
The leader of the Council appealed to the Jewish women of America for their support in cementing the cultural bridge between the American-Jewish community and Israel. “Just as American-Jewish women,” Mrs. Hymes said, “are concerned with giving their full support to the public school system in America, cognizant of its importance to their children in the development of democracy in the United States, so I would likewise appeal to them to be vitally concerned with public education in Israel.
“The population explosion in Israel has resulted in school attendance increasing fourfold in ten years. At the turn of the century in the United States, our democratic school system welded together various and diverse nationality groups in our country. Today Israel faces this same problem, and they need the support and interest of American Jewish mothers,” Mrs. Hymes reported.
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