Mrs. D. M. Shapiro Embarks for Zion

Next Thursday will find Mrs. Dora Monness Shapiro boarding the Conte di Savoia to embark upon the voyage which is the realfzation of a life-long dream: a trip to Paleatine.

Although Mrs. Shapiro has often been to Europe she felt that Palestine was too distant to attempt the trip alone. Thaveling in her party on this cruise will be her sister-in-law, Bessie Monness and a friend, Theresa Gluck.

They will spend four or five weeks Palestine participating in the Purim Carnival in Tel Aviv and the Passover service. Mrs. Shapiro plans to see every inch of the country; to learn as much about Palestine as possible and make a thorough survey of philan-thropic activities in the Holy Land. During her stay she will dedicate the Solomon and Dora Monness Shapiro Building of the Einstein Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She will return to the United States in May.

Mrs. Shapiro is well known in the city for the broad scope of her philanthropic activities. The list of institutions, or ganizations and individuals to whom she has been a benefactress would read something like a directory.

???I have had no children of my own and I have had to mother everyone else,??? she explained with a smile.

Besides being the founder of the Deborah Sanatorium for Tubereulosie, she is also interested in the Montefiore Home. Yeshiva College, Israel Orphan Home, Beth David Hospital. Beth Israel Hospital. Hebrew Day and Night Nursery, Young Men???s Hebrew Association, Home for the Jewish Blind. Jewish Crippled Children and others.

She contributed a ward of twenty-four beds to the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, and also gave a ward to Home of the Aged of the Daughters of Israel. Through the Solomon and Dora Monness Shapiro Fund assistance has been given the needy and the sick-and a number of studentts have been put through college. The funds are allocated entirely according at the discretion of Mrs. Shapiro.