The United Israel Appeal pledged $1 million to build a music center for the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem, which has been attacked in recent weeks with gunfire from a neighboring Palestinian town. The announcement came as the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors, meeting in Jerusalem this week, visited Gilo.
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