Dr. Arthur J. Lelyveld, national director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, has been appointed executive vice-president of the American Fund for Israel Institutions, it was announced today by Samuel Rubin, president of the American Fund. Dr. Lelyveld succeeds Itzhak Norman in the top executive post of the organization on June 1st. Mr. Norman, after 15 years with the American Fund, will return to his home in Israel.
The American Fund supports many of the leading educational and cultural institutions in Israel and conducts a program of cultural exchange in music, drama, art and literature. Dr. Lelyveld, a native of New York City, is a graduate of Columbia University. He received the degree of Master of Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1931.
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