The Histadrut medical network, Kupat Holim, opened today a new central dispensary and clinic at Jaffa named for Dr. Herman Seidel of Baltimore, who heads the Labor Zionist movement in that city. Present at the inaugural ceremony were Dr. Seidel, 150 Labor Zionist leaders from the United States, Speaker of the Knesset Joseph Sprinzak and many Histadrut officers. The sum of $250,000 for the clinic was raised among Baltimore Jews by the Histadrut campaign.
The cornerstone of a recreation center for disabled veterans of Israel’s War of Liberation was laid at Nahariah today at a ceremony attended by Mrs. Vera Weizmann, widow of Israel’s first President, U.S. Ambassador Edward B. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham S. Kay and B’nai B’rith president Philip Klutznick. The center, which will contain a swimming pool, special athletic equipment and other recreational material and structures, will be named for Mr. Kay, chairman of the Washington branch of the Zionist Organization of America, who contributed $250,000 toward the cost of its construction.
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