Transmittal of a check for more than 1,000,000 pounds ($560,000) for Israel’s future national museum was the last official act yesterday of outgoing United States Ambassador Ogden Reid, Jr.
The funds came from counterpart funds of the United States Information Media Guaranty Program. The check was presented to Jerusalem Mayor Mordechai Ish-Shalom at the site where the museum will be erected in the southwestern part of Jerusalem overlooking a planned national park between a residential section and the new Hebrew University campus.
The amount is about one-third of the total sum needed to complete the museum which will house the art treasures of the Bezalel Museum and include the sculpture garden containing showman Billy Rose’s controversial collection.
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