Hebrew Institute of Technology Will Seek $2,000,000 Expansion, Dr. Kaplansky Reports

The raising of $500,000 by the American Society For the Advancement of the Hebrew Institute of Technology in Haifa, will enable the Institute to secure additional $1,500,000 from other sources, Dr. S. Kaplansky, president of the Institute, declared today addressing a press conference.

Of the $500,000 to be raised in the United States, which are to be spent on the construction at the Institute of special laboratories named after Brigadier General Frederick H. Kisch who was killed in action in Tunisia during the war, a total of $400,000 has already been raised, it was revealed at the press conference by J.W. Wunsch, vice-president of the American Society.

Emphasizing that the main purpose of his mission to the United States is to discuss plans for the future development of the Institute, Dr. Kaplansky reported that more than 700 graduates of the Institute have been absorbed as professional engineers and architects by industry, the building trades, agriculture, municipal, government and Jewish public institutions in Palestine. About 120 of them enlisted in the Jewish units of the British Army during the war.

“The Institute possesses 12 testing and research laboratories in different branches of civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering and a Research Institute for Town Planning and Housing in its Department of Architecture,” Dr. Kaplansky stated. Its college offers a four-year course to its undergraduates. In addition, there is a Technical High School and a Nautical School affiliated with the Hebrew Institute of Technology, with a total student body of 400. The task of the Nautical School is to train officers and technical personnel for the Palestine merchant marine. It offers a 3-4 year course in navigation and marine engineering.