Finance Minister Levi Eshkol and David Horowitz, Governor of the Bank of Israel, met today with members of the board of governors of the Hebrew University in an effort to find a solution to a dispute over the election of a new president for the university.
Part of the conflict, which led yesterday to the surprise resignation of Dr. George Wise as chairman of the board of governors, involved the insistence of American members of the board on separating the post of university rector from that of president. The posts are now combined and held by Professor Yoel Racah.
Following the resignation and sudden departure for New York by Dr. Wise, when notified that his father-in-law is critically ill there, the American members did not participate in the board meeting yesterday. A committee of governors was scheduled to meet today under the chairmanship of Mr. Horowitz to seek a solution.
(Hyman Rosenberg, 83, father-in-law of Dr. Wise, died in New York today. He was an educator and scholar. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at the Riverside Chapel).
Mean while, the university conferred honorary doctorates today on Professor Saul Lieberman, a Talmud authority of the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York; Hanoch Yalon, an Israeli expert in Hebrew philology; and on Joseph Mazer of New York, deputy chairman of the university’s Board of Governors. The ceremony was held in the Abraham Mazer Building of the university, which houses its Institute of Jewish Studies.
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