Quote below references the difficulties that Brigham Young University and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were having in 1986, which led to the acquisition of signatures of members of the US House of Representatives on May 8,1986 in support of the Jerusalem Center:
“…the United States Congress intervened on our behalf with a letter to the Israeli government signed by 154 Congresspeople on both sides of the aisle. We made 120 copies and sent them to each member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) to ensure that they received their own personal letter to peruse. Additionally, we placed a copy of the letter in every newspaper in the country. That really got Israel’s attention and went a long way in persuading all interested parties, especially fence sitters, of our bona fides in establishing a center in Jerusalem.”
(From address by David B. Galbraith titled The Lead-up to the Dedication of the Jerusalem Center at the Jerusalem Center 30 Year Anniversary Event, as told in the BYU Studies Quarterly, Volume 59, Number 4, 2020)
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