The new academic year of Hebrew University was inaugurated here today after being delayed for two weeks by a student strike in protest against increased tuition fees and other economic grievances.
Addressing the opening ceremony, Minister of Education Ben Zion Dinaburg pledged that the government would continue to “do everything in its power to assist the University in carrying out its functions as the highest educational institution in Israel. ” Prof. Benjamin Mazar, the new Rector, said that the University would strike to speed development of its medical, agricultural and law faculties, and hailed the recent establishment of a new school of economics at the University named for the late Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan.
The outgoing Rector, Dr. I. Schwabe, reported on other recent developments at the University and outlined the problems caused by the fact that the institution’s quarters were located in seven buildings dispersed throughout Jerusalem. Dr. Werner Senator devoted the bulk of his address to a review of relations between the University and the Jewish Agency, the government and Jewry abroad.
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