Mr. Nathan Straus’s visit to Palestine in 1911 was recalled by Dr. J. L. Magnes, the Chancellor of the Hebrew University, when he presided to-day at the Nathan Straus memorial meeting held here at the Straus Health Centre at the expiration of the seven days of mourning. The auditorium was thronged with people.
It was at that time, Dr. Magnes said, that Mr. Straus had opened his first Health Station at Hederah, and his first soup kitchen in Jerusalem. Dr. Magnes also recalled that Mr. Straus had bought a plot of land at Talpioth as a site for the Hebrew University.
Mr. Mayor Dizengoff, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, speaking on behalf of the All-Jewish town, paid a tribute to Mr. Straus as the father of public hygiene in Palestine.
Mr. David Yellin, on behalf of the Vaad Leumi, enumerated Mr. Straus’s many philanthropies, emphasising particularly his financing of the Nathania colony of farmers’ sons, who are perpetuating the name of their benefactor.
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