A non-Jewish San Francisco educator who died there recently has left his entire estate of nearly $500,000 to Israeli causes, according to the Israeli Digest, published here by the Jewish Agency. Professor John Lewis Horn bequeathed 75 percent of his estate to the Jewish National Fund and the balance to Youth Aliyah. Prof. Horn and his late wife visited Israel together in 1954.
Some time before his death, Prof. Horn also contributed money to the JNF for the establishment of a pioneering outpost. At that time, he wrote to Yaacov Tsur, chairman of the JNF presidium, that “we simply have affection for the people and the country and regard the establishment of the State as one of the remarkable events of the century.”
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