The Ford Foundation is considering making further grants to complete a program of study of the human and natural resources of the State of Israel, it was revealed here today with the release of the Foundation’s annual report for 1955.The report noted that since 1953 when the Foundation granted funds to the Israel Foundation’s Trustees to make possible research on more than two dozen resource questions by social and natural scientists, the Ford Foundation has been helping Israel. Last year, the report said, Ford Foundation staff members visited Israel to review the progress of the research.
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