Hadassah today commemorated the seventh annual World Jewish Child’s Day with the presentation to Israel of checks totalling $190,000 for civil defense equipment for immigration installations maintained in Israel by the Youth Aliyah movement and for the construction of a synagogue in a youth immigrant reception center in Haifa.
The checks were presented at a ceremony at the Israel Consulate here at which several hundred national leaders of Hadassah, Pioneer Women and Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America were present. Dr. Miriam Freund, Youth Aliyah chairman of Hadassah, announced that $20,000 of the $190,000 would be used for the construction of the synagogue and the balance for emergency defense needs.
At the ceremony, an 11-year-old American child, Ann Winton, of New York, speaking on behalf of the children of this country, presented a Torah to a seven-year-old Israeli child, Michael Justman, son of an Israeli diplomat residing in New York. The Torah will be read in the new synagogue at Ramat Hadassah-Szold, the Hadassah-maintained youth immigration center in Haifa where young newcomers are processed before assignment to permanent homes and schools.
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