David
and Alice travelled a lot after World War II.van Buuren took overseas
the most famous Belgian paintings of his collection (and this explains
the present success of James Ensor or G. Minne in the U.S.). Alice
became vice-president of the YWCA and gave her financial help to
the Queen Elisabeth Archeological Institute of Jerusalem, where
she financed the building of Collegium Fabiolanum. Golda Meir, Ben
Gourion, Shimon Peres, Moshe Dayan and Itzaak Rabin often visited
the villa which interested political and military events of the
Middle East between 1960 and 1970.
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1941, garden-party
for the charities of YWCA. On the right, Alice and M. Wolfers.
Alice at the
opening ceremony of the Collegium Fabiolanum, Jerusalem, 1962.
