Los Angeles philanthropists and Jewish community activists Fred and Barbara Kort, of Los Angeles, will endow a five-story building for language studies at Bar-Ilan University. University President Prof. Moshe Kaveh made the announcement today at the annual Global Board of Trustees meetings.
The Fred and Barbara Kort Language Studies Building will be a major facility for teaching foreign languages and culture. More than 24,000 square feet, the Building will serve as a teaching center for the University's Departments of English, Arabic, French Language and Culture, Classical Studies, and the Unit of Translation and Interpreting in the Faculty of Humanities. Four of the Building's five floors will house classrooms of varying sizes for group seminars and lecture courses. The Building was designed by Zalman & Ruth Enav Architects, Ltd.
The Kort Building will be situated on the University's new North Campus - a $500 million, 70-acre campus extension located to the northeast of the University's central campus in Ramat Gan.
Fred Kort and his wife, Barbara, a native of China, have been longtime supporters of Bar-Ilan University and other causes. At the University they most recently endowed the Kort Sino-Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program. Over a ten-year period, the Program is enabling 100 Chinese post-doctoral fellows to spend one to two years at Bar-Ilan University conducting research in such fields as physics, biochemistry, mathematics, social sciences and Jewish studies.
Fred Kort is one of nine people known to have survived the Treblinka death camps in Poland, where over 800,000 Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis. In 1969, some 20 years after arriving in the United States, he opened the Imperial Toy Corporation, a leading global toy manufacturer. Imperial's product line features more than 850 toys and the company employs more than 5,000 workers worldwide, with factories in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Hong Kong.
The Kort Language Studies Building is one of 11 new buildings and major facilities for which construction is expected to be completed on Bar-Ilan University's North Campus by 2005. "This massive construction undertaking - one of the largest in the history of higher education in Israel - stems from the tremendous growth in our student body (90 percent increase over the past nine years), as well as the intensifying research and instruction at Bar-Ilan University in graduate studies", says Prof. Moshe Kaveh, President of the University.
The Fred and Barbara Kort Language Studies Building will be a major facility for teaching foreign languages and culture. More than 24,000 square feet, the Building will serve as a teaching center for the University's Departments of English, Arabic, French Language and Culture, Classical Studies, and the Unit of Translation and Interpreting in the Faculty of Humanities. Four of the Building's five floors will house classrooms of varying sizes for group seminars and lecture courses. The Building was designed by Zalman & Ruth Enav Architects, Ltd.
The Kort Building will be situated on the University's new North Campus - a $500 million, 70-acre campus extension located to the northeast of the University's central campus in Ramat Gan.
Fred Kort and his wife, Barbara, a native of China, have been longtime supporters of Bar-Ilan University and other causes. At the University they most recently endowed the Kort Sino-Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program. Over a ten-year period, the Program is enabling 100 Chinese post-doctoral fellows to spend one to two years at Bar-Ilan University conducting research in such fields as physics, biochemistry, mathematics, social sciences and Jewish studies.
Fred Kort is one of nine people known to have survived the Treblinka death camps in Poland, where over 800,000 Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis. In 1969, some 20 years after arriving in the United States, he opened the Imperial Toy Corporation, a leading global toy manufacturer. Imperial's product line features more than 850 toys and the company employs more than 5,000 workers worldwide, with factories in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Hong Kong.
The Kort Language Studies Building is one of 11 new buildings and major facilities for which construction is expected to be completed on Bar-Ilan University's North Campus by 2005. "This massive construction undertaking - one of the largest in the history of higher education in Israel - stems from the tremendous growth in our student body (90 percent increase over the past nine years), as well as the intensifying research and instruction at Bar-Ilan University in graduate studies", says Prof. Moshe Kaveh, President of the University.