Israel’s first Dental School, a new School of Pharmacy and a social science school were opened today at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School with the beginning of the University’s new academic year. The social science faculty will include courses in economics, sociology, political science and public and business administration.
Organized groups and members of these professions in various countries have been raising funds and obtaining equipment needed for the training of dentists and pharmacists in Israel. Among the largest of such groups is Alpha Omega, an American Jewish dental group which had undertaken to raise $300,000 in the United States and Canada, for the construction of a building for dental instruction at the University. Another U.S. group, the National Dental Division of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, is raising funds for scholarships for Israeli dental students.
(In New York, Dr. George S. Wise, chairman of the University’s board of governors and president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, said that the establishment of the Dental School “comes at the request of the Israel Government, which fears an imminent shortage of dentists because the average age of dentists now practicing is well over 50.”)
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