An offer to place the scientific knowledge and facilities of the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel, at the disposal of the U.S. Israel desalination project, was made today by Meyer W. Weisgal, chief executive of the Institute, here for a brief stay.
Mr. Weisgal pointed out that American cooperation with Israel for desalting sea water was announced publicly for the first time by President Johnson last February 6 at the annual Weizmann Dinner in New York; In the course of his address on that occasion, the President declared: “The Weizmann Institute is an international scientific institution in the fullest sense of the word. It has helped make Israel one of the foremost scientific resources of the world.”
Mr. Weisgal said today that “if the desalination project calls for basic research the field in which the Weizmann Institute specializes, we are prepared to supply scientific knowledge, manpower, laboratories and whatever may be required of us; “
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