Alexander Shapiro, chairman of the Greater Boston Israel Histadrut campaign, announced today that a $100,000 Kupat Holim medical center will be established in Haifa in honor of John E. Powers, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Suffolk County and former President of the Massachusetts State Legislature.
Funds for the project were raised at the “Freedom Award” dinner attended by 2,000 prominent New Englanders, including Governor of Massachusetts John Volpe. Dr. Sol Stein, executive director of the National Committee for Labor Israel, who made the “Freedom Award” presentation, hailed the contribution made by Mr. Powers to the cause of Israel.
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