The Bezalel Art School will be closed in a few days, it was announced here today.
The crisis has set in due to the discontinuance of the subsidy granted the school by the American Zionist body, Order Sons of Zion, of New York. The Order undertook a year ago to guarantee the school’s deficit.
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