The role that the Hebrew University in Jerusalem can play in training doctors and teachers to minister to the needs of the devasted sections of European Jewry after the war, was stressed here today at the annual meeting of the British Friends of the Hebrew University at the auditorium of the Royal Society by Samson Wright, a leader of the Jewish National Fund in Britain.
Viscount Samuel, president of the Friends, reported that the organization had quadruled its membership in the past year. Discussing the University’s achievements, he declared that its accomplishments in the 25 years of its existence have seldom, if ever, been surpassed by any other university in the world. Viscount Samuel outlined plans for expansion of the institutions medical school and also announced that a group of Manchester residents had offered to finance a chair of Arabic at the university.
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