In 2013 Helen Burns joined the BFHU legacy Mission and pledged a gift in her Will of £15,000 for cancer research. Sadly Helen became ill with cancer and passed away in 2017. Her memory and that of her late husband Harvey Burns live on and they are memorialised on the Legacy Wall of Honour on Mount Scopus campus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her generous gift has been designated for the Cancer Hub at the Hebrew University.
