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This monument was one of the first erected outside of New York and was the first that had all the names of the victims of the attack etched upon it.
The monument was designed by the Israeli artist Eliezer Weishoff. It is built as a flame rising to the heavens and at its base is set, behind a protective glass cover, a piece of the wreckage from the Twin Towers in New York.
Among those participating in the ceremony were United States Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, JNF USA President Stanley Chesley, the World Chairman of KKL-JNF Efi Stenzler, KKL-JNF Director General Yael Shealtieli and Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat. At the end of the ceremony, the national anthems of the United States and Israel were played and many of the invited guests approached the huge ring of metal plates bearing the names of the 2,977 victims of the terrorist attack.
About two months afterwards, on November 14, 2011, the KKL-JNF grove in Buenos Aires was re- inaugurated. The event took place as part of the visit of the Jewish Agency's Board of Trustees, in which participated senior Argentinian personages as well as the Chairman of KKL-JNF Efi Stenzler, Minister Dan Meridor, the acting Israeli Prime Minister and the heads of KKL-JNF Argentina. Some 500 men and women were present at the ceremony, during which the Heads of the Zionist Organizations – The Jewish Agency, KKL-JNF, Keren Hayesod and the World Zionist Organization – planted trees in the nearby park named for the State of Israel.
Eddie Huberman, the Director of KKL-JNF in Argentina, told those present about the Fund's activities during its 110 years and emphasized the importance of maintaining the square at the heart of Buenos Aires' green lung. The representatives of the local government thanked KKL-JNF for adding the color green to their city.
And back in Jerusalem, on November 27, 2011, the Jerusalem Cinematheque showed the first movie created in Eretz Yisrael. The event was held in honor of the publication of the book "Israel before Israel" (Silent Cinema in the Holy Land) by Hillel Tryster, which deals with the history of cinema in Israel. The festive evening was conducted on behalf of the KKL-JNF Institute for the Study of Zionism and Settlement, the World Zionist Organization, the "Bialik Institute" and the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive.
The large audience responded with excitement at the sight of people and panoramas of the "Old Forgotten Land of Israel," which were shot beginning in 1911: The first pioneers and workers in Jerusalem, in the north of the country and in the colonies, the people that cut stones and plowed fields. Afterwards they saw, among other things, the British soldiers that conquered the Land of Israel in the First World War under the command of General Allenby, the wedding of Edwin Samuel, the son of the first High Commissioner and the large celebration in the "Bezalel" Art School, in which the students bore the headmaster Boris Schatz on the their shoulders.
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