Extensive technical aid from the United States for Israel is expected here as a result of the American-Israel “Point Four” agreement signed here yesterday by U.S. Ambassador Monnet Davis and Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett.
The agreement, general in nature, contains provisions which were passed as part of President Truman’s Point Four program. Within this general framework a training program will be worked out providing for American experts to be sent to Israel to help on specific projects, while Israeli trainees come to the United States to receive training in specialized fields.
The Israel Government has already suggested that American experts would be useful and welcome in the Jewish state to help with road construction, railways, irrigation methods, organization of public health services, technical training and citrus fruit production. The fields in which Israel would like its own people trained in the United States include deep sea fishing, ceramics and ship repairing.
“All these projects are related to the broad program of economic development projected in Israel’s four-year plan and are designed to aid Israel’s efforts to develop its resources and improve working and living conditions,” says a statement issued here.
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