The Walter Artz secondary school, the first of 72 such schools to be built in Israel with money from the United Jewish Appeal’s $127,000,000 Israel Education Fund, was dedicated here yesterday.
Attending the ceremony were the 140 members of the UJA Study Mission, who included Walter Artz of New York, an industrialist for whom the school is named. Others present were Mayor Mordechai Namir, representatives of the Prime Minister’s office and the Education Ministry.
Mr. Artz said the school of arts and sciences was not only the best equipped in Israel but also the best of its kind in the world, being the newest and most modern school of its type. Other speakers were Joseph Meyerhoff, of Baltimore, UJA general chairman and chairman of the board of the Fund; and Rabbi Herbert Friedman, UJA executive vice-chairman.
The mission also visited a Malben home for the aged in Nathanya, named for Frieda Schiff Warburg, where the mission members learned that Malben institutions again have a waiting list for entry.
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