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Austria In the first half of 2005, Austrian support of the Jerusalem Foundation was highlighted by two major events: Jerusalem's new Herzl Museum on Mount Herzl was officially opened on May 19th, 2005. The opening marked Israel's first official Herzl Day, set on the10th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar to coincide with Herzl’s birthday. The Jerusalem Foundation was able to support the Museum, which presents Herzl, his life and his work in an innovative, multimedia format, with help that came predominantly from Austria. In the presence of Israel's President, Moshe Katsav, as well as Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, the this important project, Prof. Jacob Allerhand and Mrs. Rudolfine Steindling, who unveiled the donors' plaque. Close to the opening, yet another Austrian donor joined this list, contributing generously: The Government of Styria, Waltraut Klasnic, Governor. (See also the Jerusalem Foundation’s website under http://german .jerusalemfoundation.org/article.php?id =226). During a festive dinner at the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center at Mishkenot Sha’ananim with representatives of the Jerusalem Foundation, Austrian Secretary of State Franz Morak, the members of his delegation and other guests were introduced to the A. and E. Libsch music project - in memory of the Jewish Austrian Foreign Minister Dr. Ursula Plassnik. During her visit to Jerusalem in June 2005, Dr. Plassnik also met with the Jerusalem Foundation’s President, Ruth Cheshin, and promised that Austria would contribute to the Center for Jewish-Arab Education. (See below about the visit of Austria’s Minister of Education, Science and Culture Mrs. Elisabeth Gehrer). Dr. Jankowitsch used his visit for touring projects supported by donors from Austria. On the schedule were, in addition to the new Herzl Museum and the Living Museum at Ein Yael (see below), the Vienna Garden in the Park of Nations at the Wohl Rose Garden, the Nittel Traffic Education Park, the Jerusalem Teachers’ Seminary, the Rehavia High School (Gymnasium) and its Leon Zelman Hall; he also was informed on past work done with Austrian help on the Via Dolorosa in the Old City and the Arab Omariya School, as well as on ongoing research at the Jerusalem Zoo. The tour culminated in a stop at the Hand in Hand School for Jewish-Arab Education - for which the Jerusalem Foundation is building a new, comprehensive campus that also enjoys support from Austria (see last Windows). The inauguration of the Herzl Museum: (from right to left) Austrian Secretary of State Franz Morag, Israeli President Moshe Katzav, Jerusalem Foundation President Ruth Cheshin, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Jerusalem Foundation Chairman Dan Meridor and Supreme Court Justice Mishael Cheshin. Dr. Plassnik’s visit was followed by a visit from Austria’s Minister of Education, Science and Culture, Mrs. Elisabeth Gehrer in November 2005. At the construction site of the Bilingual School, Mrs. Gehrer presented her ministry’s pledge for the new campus, a pledge that is shared with the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and the Austrian Federal Chancellery. Chairman of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, Sallai Meridor, and Jerusalem Foundation President, Ruth Cheshin, the ceremony was attended by a sizeable delegation from Vienna. The delegation was led by Secretary of State for Art and Media in the Office of the Federal Chancellor of Austria, Franz Morak, and also included the Austrian Ambassador to Israel, H.E. Kurt Hengl, Director of the Vienna Opera, Mr. Ioan Holender, Director of the Schoenberg Center Vienna, Dr. Christian Meyer, and General Director of Casino Austria, Dr. Emil Metzgolits, as well as two sponsors out of a long list of donors for composer Arnold Schoenberg - and to the decision to have a Rudolfine Steindling Plaza in the Jerusalem Zoo. Earlier the same day, the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center had hosted an International Conference entitled It is Not a Dream: Herzl 2005. Among the participants were the President of the Jerusalem Foundation Austria, Dr. Peter Jankowitsch, who opened the conference, and Israeli writer Amos Elon. The conference was supported jointly by the Jerusalem Foundation and the Austrian Cultural Forum of the Austrian Embassy and received the help of Austrian Another important event that took place within the framework of this year’s international June event was the inauguration of the Vienna Road, the Via Vindobona, at the Living Museum Ein Yael on June 7th, 2005. In the course of several years, the open-air museum had been comprehensively renovated and enlarged through the initiative of Vienna’s mayor, Dr. Michael Haeupl, who supported the project in honor of former Jerusalem mayor and Jerusalem Foundation founder Teddy Kollek’s 90th birthday, with the assistance of deputy mayor Dr. Sepp Rieder. The festive act of naming the ancient Roman road leading through the 24 Windows on Jerusalem Winter 2006
museum, which was attended by Vienna’s former mayor, Prof. Dr. Helmut Zilk, by representatives of the Austrian Embassy and by many friends of the Jerusalem Foundation from Israel and abroad, was the high point of this long-term commitment. supported by it, hosts a large number of international conferences and meetings, which are also sponsored by German donors. The main points of emphasis of For further information on the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, please contact: mishken@actcom.co.il, The Jerusalem Foundation, its members and its staff, express their deep and heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Rudolfine Steindling and the Gertner family on the loss of Danek Gertner, Vienna. May he rest in peace On 30 October, 2005 the Bernard M. Bloomfield Science Museum, which was founded jointly by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Foundation, opened its extraordinary exhibition on Albert Einstein, his life and his work. The exhibition was previously shown in New York, Boston, Chicago und Los Angeles, yet in Jerusalem it is presented, for the first time, in three languages: Hebrew, Arabic and English. It is organized in cooperation with the Museum for Natural History, New York and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and supported by the Israel Ministry for Science and Education, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Intel, as well as the Jerusalem Foundation and its friends, among them the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture and the Austrian Foreign Ministry, the German State of Baden-Württember and Jack Rudin. The companies Ratiopharm AG and Telefunken- Racoms from Einstein’s home town of Ulm in Germany are supporting the project through the involvement of Ulm’s mayor, Ivo Goenner. Germany The growing number of visitors from abroad led to an increase in the activities at the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center at Mishkenot Sha’ananim. Every year, this Center, which was established by the Jerusalem Foundation and is Dr. Heinrich von Pierer, Chairman of the Board of Siemens AG, visiting the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center at Mishkenot Sha’ananim in Autumn 2005, with Dan Meridor and Ruth Cheshin, as well as Irene Pollak and Yissakhar Ben- Ya’acov. the programs at the Conference Center focus on Ethics and Human Values, Creative Work and its Different Aspects, Religion and Culture, and Jerusalem as a City of Mankind. Among the highlights at the KACC was a visit by Otto Schily, then Germany’s Interior Minister, and a recital by German actress Iris Berben from the poems of Holocaust victim Selma Meerbaum- Eisinger, in October 2005. The event took place within the framework of an exhibition presenting the “Juergen Serke Collection” in honor of the 60 years that went by since the end of WWII and was sponsored by mdBerlin and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. In November 2005, a three-day International Cartoon Conference organized by the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center at Mishkenot Sha’ananim attracted an enthusiastic public to visit the KACC. The highly successful event hosted cartoon artists from 18 countries and was sponsored by the Kronen Zeitung, Dr. h.c. Erich Schumann, the Zeit Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and the German Embassy. A special publication with works of the participants was published and well received. german@jerusalemfoundation.org The Chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation Germany and former Prime Minister of the German State of Baden-Württemberg, Mr. Erwin Teufel, came with a delegation to attend this year's international June events and received the Teddy Kollek Award for life achievement at the Knesset, Israel's parliament. (see pgs. 14-15). In his speech, Mr. Teufel emphasized his life-long interest in the welfare of the Jewish people and Israel as well as in relations between Jews and Germans, and profoundly thanked German donors for their involvement. Prof. Berthold Leibinger and his wife, Doris, visited Jerusalem as members of Mr. Teufel's delegation and on the occasion pledged yet another five-year support of Misholim, an organization that takes care of children with behavioral disorders. In addition, Prof. Leibinger is supporting the preparation of new programs at the KACC. Also in June, a photography exhibition, which was sponsored by the Jerusalem Foundation with the support of the City of Hamburg, the Hamburg-based company Hapag Lloyd and the German Embassy Windows on Jerusalem Winter 2006 25
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