Overview
- Distribution is scheduled next week at the Badatz Eidah HaChareidis offices in Kikar Zupnik, Jerusalem.
- Keren Hatzalah will allocate the money to mosdos al taharas hakodesh that do not accept Israeli government funding.
- Four million dollars were pooled by prominent Satmar philanthropists, including R’ Chaim Pesach Goldstein, R’ Berel Weiss, R’ Yechezkel Schwimmer, R’ Yoeli Landau, and R’ Mordechai Kahn.
- An additional one million dollars was personally delivered in Or HaGanuz by the Satmar Rebbe to Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Ullman during a Hafrashas Terumos U’Maasros visit, with that portion contributed by R’ Menachem Gershon Leibowitz, R’ Yechezkel Berkowitz, and R’ Shalom Yakubovitz.
- The Rebbe requested that disbursement occur after his return to the United States near Chanukah, and Rav Ullman publicly noted the gift’s unusual discretion.