Dr. Benjamin Akzin has been appointed Associate Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, according to an announcement today by Dr. Israel S. Wechsler, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University. Dr. Akzin, who has taught at the College of the City of New York, the Portia Law School and College in Boston, and the University of Paris, served as political secretary for the American Zionist Emergency Council.
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