A budget of $5, 038, 100 of the World ORT Union for vocational training of 30, 000 Jews in Israel, Poland, North Africa and other areas during 1958, was approved today at a national conference of the American ORT Federation held at Roosevelt Hotel here.
The conference ratified a financial agreement under terms of which ORT is to receive $1, 575, 000 from the Joint Distribution Committee, out of United Jewish Appeal funds. The balance of ORT budgetary requirements are to be made up by the membership activities of the organization and local allocations received in countries served by ORT activities.
Dr. William Haber, president of American ORT Federation, announced to the delegates representing the organization’s 75, 000 members, that the newly established ORT program in Poland would be extended to 14 cities. Fifteen hundred Jewish repatriates who have recently been permitted to return to Poland from the Soviet Union, will be enrolled in these courses within the next few months.
General Yaacov Dori, president of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, told an evening dinner session that vocational education in Israel must be assigned a far higher priority than hitherto to meet industry’s requirements for technicians and mechanics. Adolph Held, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, was chairman of the dinner meeting.
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