Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild, widow of James de Rothschild, has added an additional 3,000,000 pounds ($1,000,000) to her gifts for construction of a permanent building for Israel’s Parliament, Speaker Kadish Luz announced today. The new gift raises to more than 10,000,000 pounds ($3,333,000) the contributions of the Rothschild family for the projected Knesset building.
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