The receipt of $58,000 in two bequests to Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, was announced yesterday by Mrs. Edward Jacobs, head of the Palestine Committee of the organization.
According to Mrs. Jacobs, $34,000 comes from the estate of the late Amelia Ostroski, of San Francisco, Cal., as the first instalment of her bequest of over $100,000, which she designated to be used for the poor and needy of Palestine. The interest on a bequest of $24,000 under the will of the late Simon Russek, of New York, who was a prominent real estate operator, will be used for public health education through the Straus Health Center of Hadassah in Jerusalem. In its medical and health work in Palestine Hadassah is constantly stressing preventive care and it decided, accordingly, that the most fitting use for the Russek gift would be to further Hadassah’s campaign for the preservation of health.
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