The Massad summer camps in the United States and Jewish institutions in Australia. Venezuela and Panama shared the fifth annual Shazar Prize for Jewish Education in the Diaspora. President Ephraim Katzir presented the awards Sunday night to representatives of the institutions at a ceremony at his official residence. The Massad summer camps which started in 1941 with 23 youngsters now takes in more than 900 campers every year.
The Mount Scopus School in Melbourne, the largest Jewish school in Australia with more than 2200 pupils, received an IL 5000 award for its “outstanding educational work.” especially its extracurricular activities which include a club for spoken Hebrew.
The Latin American prize was divided between the Jewish school in Caracas, which is attended by 80 percent of the Jewish youngsters in that Venezuelan city, and the Einstein School in Panama which takes in all Jewish children in that country.
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