Mrs. Samuel Halperin, former national president of Hadassah, sailed on the Italian liner Conte de Savoia for Palestine, where she and her family will reside permanently.
Mrs. Halperin will act as the official representative in Palestine of the American national board of Hadassah and will be executive secretary of its Palestine council. Her family is already in the Holy Land.
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