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1956–60 International Cultural
Center for Youth,
Jerusalem

The center was built on the initiative of the Children to
Palestine organization which began operating during
World War II to rescue Jewish children in Europe,
together with Dorothy and Murray Silverstone, the
president of 20th Century Fox, as a place for the city’s
Jewish and Muslim youths. The purpose of the building
was changed when the Aliyat Hanoar organization was
put in charge of it, and redefined it as a center “nurturing
fraternity and mutual respect between Arab and Israeli
youths in Israel and elsewhere.”

The building, which covers 1,700 m², is situated
on an inner plot that leads off Emek Refaim, the main
street of the German Colony in Jerusalem. A relic of a

Signing the charter at the stone
laying ceremony beside the
building's model, 1956
‫חתימה על מגילת היסוד בטקס הנחת‬
1956 ,‫ לצד דגם הבניין‬,‫אבן־הפינה‬

p. 252: View from the
south-west, 1960
1960 ,‫ מבט מדרום־מערב‬:252 '‫עמ‬

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