The sum of $150,000 was raised here last night for the Hebrew Institute of Technology in Haifa at a dinner attended by 1,500 persons each of whom subscribed $100. Shlomo Kaplansky, president of the Institute, who arrived by special plane from Palestine yesterday, was the principal speaker.
Declaring that “the Jewish people will overcome present difficulties and will build in this long-neglected ancient land a free and just society, based on the sound foundations of modern science and technology,” Kaplansky urged full support for the Institute which is the only school for technological and engineering education in Palestine, with a student body of close to 1,100 and an outstanding faculty.
The dinner, which was held under the auspices of the American Society for the Advancement of the Hebrew Institute of Technology, was tendered in honor of Alexander Konoff, a director of the society. It marked the final stage of a drive, headed by Field Marshall Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and Professor Albert Einstein, to raise a half-million dollar building fund for the erection and equipment of additional engineering laboratories at the Institute. The laboratories will be named after Brigadier General Frederick H. Kisch, late chief engineer of Montgomery’s Eighth Army and a former trustee of the Institute at Haifa.
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