A painting “The Holy City of Jerusalem’ by the Israeli painter Myron Sima will be placed in the Truman Museum here. The painting was presented to Mr. Truman in Washington a day before he left the White House in behalf of a committee of prominent American art lovers and friends of Israel interested in cementing cultural relations between the United States and Israel.
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