The Israel Education Fund, founded in the United States some five years ago, has so far made possible the building of 45 high schools in Israel. The chairman of the fund, Mr. Charles J. Bensley, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent here yesterday that the Educational Fund raised $35 million for this purpose. The local authorities, in whose jurisdictions the schools were built, contributed similar amounts, he said. The Funds’ program calls for the construction of another 30 high schools, five junior collages and about 200 pre-kindergartens, Mr. Bensley added. He is now visiting Jerusalem for the inauguration of the latest and most extensive project undertaken by the Education Fund, the “Denmark Comprehensive School,” in this city which cost close to $3 million to build. Nearly half of it, $1.4 million was received from 14 individual donors in the U.S. who paid $100,000 each. The school is intended to commemorate the saving of the Jewish population of Denmark from the Nazis by the Danish people in World War II.
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