Appointment of Dr. Aryeh Nesher as executive director of the Israel Foundation Fund was announced today by Charles J. Bensley, the president. The fund is a program of the United Jewish Appeal established in 1964 to meet acute building, personnel and equipment shortages in Israel’s secondary school system, particularly in the development towns.
Dr. Nesher, an Israeli educator and social scientist, was executive director of Sherut La’am (Service to the People), which organized the dispatch of American and Canadian college graduates to Israel for volunteer service in the development areas. He has served as a human relations consultant to the Israel Government and the Jewish Agency.
A native of Rumania, Dr. Nesher was active in the anti-Nazi resistance and in work for displaced persons after World War II. He arrived in Israel in 1948 and after army service, including direction of the Army program of absorption of newcomers, joined the Ministry of Labor as an economist.
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