Bloomberg Funds Ambulance Corps Building in Israel

Mayor Bloomberg will honor his late father in Jerusalem on Thursday by funding and renaming the redesign of a decades-old ambulance corps building for him.

The mayor's latest philanthropy will benefit the Israeli equivalent of the American Red Cross, Magen David Adom.

"I think he probably looks down and has a smile on his face," Mr. Bloomberg said. "He would have loved it."

The mayor's family will attend the ceremony.

Magen David is not the first Israeli group to benefit from the mayor's philanthropy. A health center at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem was named after Mr. Bloomberg's mother in 2003.

The mayor is also scheduled to meet with King Abdullah II in Jordan.