Today, Sunday, the twenty-third day of the month of Iyar, in the year 5709 since the creation of the world, May 22, 1949 – in the second year of Israel’s independence under the presidency of Chaim Weizmann, in the tenth year since the outbreak of World War II, which brought upon the Jewish people in the Diaspora the Holocaust that annihilated six million of our people, and in the twenty-fifth year of the Hebrew Technion, a cornerstone was laid here in the city of Haifa, in the upper courtyard of the Technion, established with the assistance of the Brigadier P. H. Kish Foundation, founded by the American Society for the Technion, in the presence of representatives of the Government of Israel, the Zionist leadership, the Jewish National Fund, the Keren Hayesod, Sir William Fondiller, honorary president of the American Society for the Technion, Harry Fishbach, member of the Board of Directors of the Society, members of the executive committee, the council of professors, and the council of teachers of the Hebrew Technion, the heads of the Haifa municipality and the Hadar HaCarmel committee. This house, under the leadership of Chaim Franz Olendorf, will serve as a hub for the science of electrotechnics and a faithful sanctuary for Jewish youth seeking knowledge and freedom in the State of Israel. This is attested by the undersigned…