The Yeshiva University alumni will establish a Dr. Samuel Belkin Memorial Forest in Safed, it was announced by alumni director Rabbi Abraham Avrech. Dedication ceremonies will be held July 26 as part of the 14th annual Israel tour and educational conference of the University’s alumni. The nearly two-acre hill site, with space for 10,000 trees, will honor the memory of Belkin, who served as university president for 32 years and who died in 1976. The forest is being established in conjunction with the religious department of the Jewish National Fund, on whose land the forest will be situated.
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