Jack Benny Forest

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Memorial forest in Israel planned for Jack Benny
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — A Jack Benny Memorial Forest will be planted in Israel in honor of the late comedian, a lifetime supporter of the Jewish National Fund, two of his friends have announced.
George Burns and George Jessel, who had joined Benny in support of the JNF, made the announcement. The JNF plants trees and performs other land reclamation projects in Israel, they said.
The forest is to be planted within the existing "Los Angeles Forest," in an area not far from Jerusalem. Benny had been active in its creation and support.
Benny often appeared at the annual Hanukkah banquets of the JNF and was credited with having helped raised millions of dollars for land reclamation, Fred Kahan, west executive vice president of the JNF said.
"He was so gentle, so kind, so thoughtful," Kahan said, and when he was in town and health permitted, he never failed to attend the Hanukkah banquets.
Burns and Jessel said the Benny forest will be an ambitious project which will contain thousands of trees planted by his friends in every walk of life, so that the name of one of America's greatest sons, Jack Benny, will live forever in Israel."
Benny died Dec. 26 of cancer of the pancreas.
- Jan. 6, 1975

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Thirty years later... is the Jack Benny Memorial Forest still there?