A bequest of $25,000 to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem is contained in the will of the late Louis Topkis, millionaire philanthropist and prominent Zionist who died here last week. The will was probated here today. Virtually every institution in Wilmington without regard to race, creed or color, is remembered in the will.
The bequest to the Hebrew University provides for a chair in the joint names of the deceased and his wife and is to become operative upon the death of the latter. Some of the other large bequests from an estate estimated to be more than a million dollars, include $5,000 to Mt. Sinai Hospital, Philadelphia; Jewish Community Center, $5,000; Adath Kodesh Congregation, $5,000; Wilmington Hebrew Charities, $5,000; Temple Beth Emes $1,000; Congregation Chesed Shel Emes, $1,000; Yeshivah Isaac Elchanan, $2,500; Jewish Consumptive Relief Society (Denver) $2,500; four Wilmington hospitals, $1.000 each; Florence Crittendon Home, $500; Home for Merciful Rest, $500; Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, $250.
Abraham Topkis, a son, and Nathaniel I. S. Goldman, a son-in-law of Philadelphia, are named executors.
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