The Ford Foundation announced here today a new grant of $750,000 to the Israel Foundation Trustees, bringing the total given by the Ford group to the IFT to $2,650,650 since 1958. The grant continues Ford Foundation support of research by Israeli institutions on problems related to the country’s social and economic development.
The Israeli Foundation Trustees, with headquarters in Jerusalem, has on its board of directors representatives of many major educational and research institutions. Among them are the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Bar-Iland University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Negev Institute for Arid one Research and the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.
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