A Richard Tucker Music Center will be established on the Kfar Silver Agricultural High School campus at a cost of $200,000 by the Zionist Organization of America.
The Center, to be built it honor of Richard Tucker, Metropolitan Opera star, “for his devotion to the Jewish people and Israel,” would be part of the school named after Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, American Zionist leader, near Ashkelon, Israel he Center will be a major institution of the ZOA’s pre-college educational program in Israel and will contain facilities for concerts, recordings and the teaching of music.
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