Premier David Ben Gurion departed from a routine presentation of the budget of his office today to express in Parliament his “surprise at the attitude of the United States Government which still forbids travel to Israel on grounds of security considerations.”
Mr. Ben Gurion also reported to the Knesset on the establishment of a Desert Research Institute in Beersheba, the hub of Negev industry and communications. The institute is a joint project of the Scientific Research Council, headed by the Premier, and the Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Technical Institute. The new research unit will engage in meteorological study, with special emphasis on dew research.
In a review of the work of the Scientific Research Council, which he insisted had achieved international recognition, Mr. Ben Gurion said that studies of desalinization of water would be put to use shortly to recover brackish wells. He also spoke hopefully of the industrial value of Israeli work on the problem of producing steam from solar energy.
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