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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Koret Foundation gives $10 million to Tel Aviv’s Museum of the Jewish People
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe San Francisco-based Koret Foundation is giving the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv a $10 million grant — the largest from a US philanthropic foundation in the museum’s 40-year history.
The grant will establish the Koret International School for Jewish Peoplehood, the museum said in a statement. The school will expand the work of Beit Hatfutsot’s International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies and offer individually tailored personal and professional educational programs for visitors, online users, students, educators and community leaders, according to the museum.
In addition to programs taking place at the museum, they will be offered through learning curricula for Jewish day schools and community centers, traveling exhibits, and professional training and certification programs for educators from around the world.
“The Koret Foundation’s grant reflects an exciting and growing convergence of interests around the revised mission for the Museum of the Jewish People, bringing leading foundations into conversation and partnership with our ongoing and much-valued partner, the Government of Israel,” says Irina Nevzlin, chair of the board of directors at Beit Hatfutsot. “With the visionary support of the Koret Foundation, The Museum of the Jewish People will be the unquestioned global hub for a new conversation about what it means to be not just Jewish, but a member of the Jewish people.”
— JTA
The Times of Israel Community.