Gifts totalling 15,000,000 lef were made to Jewish and non-Jewish institutions by the relatives of the late Morris Wachiel, philanthropist of this city.
Six million lei of this fund went to the Jassy Jewish hospital; one million to the Jewish Loan Fund and five million to general cultural institutions.
Six hundred thousand lei was left for the workers’ sanitarium in Palestine.
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