Hadassah and the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America announced plans today to create memorials in Israel to the late President John F. Kennedy.
Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky, Hadassah President, said that Hadassah planned to construct an information center, to be called “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Building” at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. The building, which will cost about $500,000, is expected to be ready for use at the end of 1964, she said. It will include an auditorium, exhibit hall, public relations and tourist offices and dining facilities.
Mrs. Eli Resnikoff, Mizrachi Woman’s president, said the Women’s religious Zionist group would establish a John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in its Bakka Settlement Houses in Jerusalem. The library will include sections on American history, government and literature, world politics, current events, education, Jewish history and religion and Hebrew language and literature.
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