Belgium’s Queen Mother Elisabeth today was awarded Hadassah’s Henrietta Szold Award for 1964–which includes a citation and a $1, 000 gift–on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of Youth Aliyah.
More than 1, 000 leaders and members of Hadassah, attended the conference at New York Hilton Hotel where Belgian Ambassador Andre Forthomme accepted the Szold award on behalf of the Queen Mother. The presentation was made by Mrs. Siegrfied Kramarsky, national president of Hadassah.
Queen Mother Elisabeth was honored for “her commitment and dedication to the cause of Youth Aliyah,” which, the citation stated, “helped to deliver countless thousands of the children of Israel from the hands of evil and destruction into the hands of healing and salvation.” The actual presentation of the Henrietta Szold Award to the Queen Mother will be made on March 10, at the Chateau de Stuyvenberg in Brussels, by a delegation to be headed by Mrs. Kramarsky.
Moshe Kol of Jerusalem, world head of Youth Aliyah, told the conference that, within the next five years, Youth Aliyah plans to absorb 25, 000 children–between the ages of 13 and 17 years–from three world areas: North Africa and Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. He said that the first 5, 000 children will be taken into Youth Aliyah between April 1, 1964 and March 30, 1965. This, he noted, will be 1, 000 more than the 4, 000 normally absorbed into Youth Aliyah annually.
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