to be constructed at the Institute in Haifa. Field Marshal Bernard E. Montgomery, pausing for a moment from his task of conducting the Allied drive in the West, sent a cable to Professor Albert Einstein through General of the Armies Eisenhower. “Delighted to hear that you propose to establish a Memorial to Kisch and would accept honorary chairman and member of Committee of Patrons.”That was the first big boost in the Kisch Memorial Drive. Others came from Premier of South Africa, Jan Christian Smuts, from Zionism’s Dr. Chaim Weizmann, and from hundreds of men and women throughout the free world who mourned Palestine’s great Engineer, Brigadier Kisch, suddenly perceived the importance of a large, fully equipped Institute in Palestine.
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