Louis H. Boyar of Los Angeles and Jerusalem, one of America’s foremost Jewish communal leaders, who was a founder and honorary chairman of the National Campaign Cabinet of the Israel Bond Organization, died here yesterday of a heart attack at the age of 78. He was a retired builder of housing developments in California.
Boyar was stricken on Dec. 12 at a Man of the Century dinner in his honor held under the auspices of the Los Angeles Committee for Israel Bonds. A principal leader in the worldwide Israel Bond program for more than 25 years, he was chairman of the Israel Bond Board of Governors and national chairman of its Trustees of Israel. Boyar also served as chairman of the Board of the Israel Investors Corporation, a member of the Board of Capital for Israel, Inc., vice-president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University and a member of the International Board of Governors of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Active in all phases of Jewish life, he had served as Advance Gifts chairman of the Los Angeles Jewish Welfare Fund, and national vice-chairman of the Trades and Professions Council of the United Jewish Appeal. He established the Mae Boyar Children’s Home in Israel as a memorial to his late wife, who was a notable leader in activities for Israel, as well as the Boyar-Kling Arthritis Clinic in Tel Aviv, for those who cannot afford adequate medical aid.
Boyar was campaign chairman of the Brandeis Camp Institute of the Pacific, and a member of the Boards of Temple Israel of Hollywood and of Loyalty Masonic Lodge of Long Beach. In recent years he spent much of his time in Jerusalem supervising the expansion of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus.
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