A three-fold tribute to the Farband Labor Zionist Order, which will celebrate its golden jubilee in 1963, was announced here today by Histadrut, the Israel labor federation. Three major cultural and medical institutions will be named in honor of the American fraternal order, according to Yehoshua Levy, Histadrut treasurer, who recently returned from a visit to the United States.
Noting the contributions which Farband has made during the past half century to the development of Jewish education and Zionist activities in the United States and Canada, and “the considerable financial and moral support it has given to the people of Israel,” the Histadrut executive has decided to build a new five-story administration and research center at Bet Berl, the social science institute at Kfar Saba; a 70-room medical center of Kupat Holim, in Tel Aviv; and a cultural center at Efal, a residential community for retired workers near Tel Aviv. Efal, formerly the site of a kibbutz, has been developed by Histadrut as a retirement community, including a projected 500-unit section for elderly Americans who wish to settle in Israel.
Louis Segal, general secretary of Farband, acknowledged the appropriateness of the projects which, he said, will be “further symbols and practical links” between American Labor Zionists and the labor movement in Israel.
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