His wife, a well-known philanthropist, left a number of works from the collection to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where her husband was a founding trustee.

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Mr. Carpenter's architectural design work includes the facade of the new 7 World Trade Center tower in New York and the renovation of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, completed in 2010.

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The President also spent time in Jerusalem today, this morning where he toured the Israel Museum and again in the afternoon, where he delivered remarks to the Israeli people from the Jerusalem International Convention Center.

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Obama was miles away in Jerusalem at the time, preparing to visit the Israel Museum.

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Obama also visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem, and traveled to Sderot, a town in southern Israel that had suffered from missiles fired from inside the nearby Gaza Strip.

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