Louis Bloomfield, who practiced international law in Canada and whose many philanthropies advanced higher education in Israel, died suddenly in Jerusalem last Thursday of a heart attack at the age of 78. He was in Israel to receive an award from the Hebrew University. His body has been flown to Montreal, the city of his birth, where he will be buried Tuesday.
Bloomfield, a life-long Zionist, was a strong supporter of Israeli universities, of Histadrut’s Amal education network and the Hapoel sports organization. He was a member of the Boards of Directors of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and the Haifa Institute of Technology (Technion). He was also a long-time friend and supporter of Bar Ilan University.
He was an honorary citizen of Tel Aviv, a Canadian director of the Human Rights Foundation, a director of the Institute of Jewish Studies in London and the first Jew elected president of the St. John Ambulance Association in Canada.
Bloomfield, was a recipient of the Community Service Award of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York and held honorary doctorates from the Hebrew University and St. Francois Xavier and St. Thomas Universities in Canada. For many years he was Honorary Consul of Liberia in Montreal.
The Bloomfield Soccer Stadium in Jaffa was named after Louis Bloomfield and his surviving brother, Bernhard Bloomfield.
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