Every year there are strange donations and estates being transferred to Israel, finding their way to the administrator general in the Israel ministry of justice. For example, one American farmer donated a pair of stallions, a European donor set up a fund to bestow awards to soldiers serving at the IDF as dog trainers, another person's donation for the country was a rare violin, provided to be played by new immigrants only, and there was even a person who donated money provided it will be used to establish the Third Temple.
Some 50 years ago the Israeli government imposed the Administrator General to handle the estates and donations donated to the state. According to estimates, each year the state is endowed by individuals worldwide amounts and items whose total value is about 200 million Shekel.
For example, a Jew of Russian origin died childless in his poor Paris apartment. After the Paris municipality workers cleared the pile of junk that filled the apartment, they found a small box. When they opened it, they found a handwritten will, in which he wrote: "I bequeath my property to the State of Israel". It turned out that the amount the man had in his bank account was a quarter million Shkalim.
However, in London one day a non-Jewish man, in a wheelchair, appeared at the entrance of the Israeli Embassy. He took out of his pocket a bank check and wrote in it the amount of 2.1 million dollars. He handed the check to the surprised consul, and asked to spend the money to rehabilitate the disabled in Israel. The donor asked to maintain his anonymity and the only thing he was willing to say is, that being a child he had been adopted by a Jewish family.
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