A sum of £69,500, including £25,000 for Palestine, has been bequeathed here for a number of general and Jewish institutions by Mr. Charles Solomon, a South African Jew and Zionist.
Of the £25,000 for Palestine, Mr. Solomon provides in his will that £7,000 is to be spent in Palestine for the purchase of land and the erection of a building there to serve as a home for poor Jewish immigrants. The building is to have a kitchen where meals at nominal prices will be available to the immigrants. Whoever may come and ask for a meal is not to be refused, is the provision which Mr. Solomon has stipulated in his will. £18,000, the balance of this sum of £25,000, is to be invested in Palestine enterprises as an endowment fund for the benefit of this institution.
Mr. Solomon also bequeathed £25,000 as subsidies for South African students in universities in England and South Africa, without distinction of race or religion.
Mr. Solomon emigrated to South Africa from Roumania as a young man, and through his energy succeeded in acquiring great wealth. He was an active Zionist, and the Zionist Organisation of South Africa not long ago inscribed his name in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund.
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