Eliahu Elath, president of the Hebrew University, told the opening session of the board of governors today that there were 8,000 students and 1,100 teachers at the university, comprising one of Israel’s “most precious assets, ” A record total of 921 students were graduated last year, including 80 non-Jews, of whom 60 were from Asia and Africa and 112 were Israeli Arabs and Druze, he reported.
A development budget totaling 12, 000,000 pounds ($4,000, 000) for meeting several vital needs of the university was presented at the opening session. When current projects are finished, they will bring to 70, 000, 000 pounds($23, 333, 333) the amount invested in the university’s new campus to ate. The meeting, which is being attended by governors from 14 countries, also received a maintenance budget for 26, 270, 000 pounds ($8, 756, 666) for 1963-64, some 2, 000, 000 pounds ($666, 666) more than that of the prior school year.
Judge Louis Levinthal of Philadelphia, chairman of the board, noted that the standards of the university educational program had remained constant during the past two-year freeze of the university budget. While expressing thanks to the Israel Government and the Jewish Agency for financial support, he stressed that the primary financial responsibility rested on the Friends of the University groups abroad. Prof. Yoel Racah, university rector, stressed the need to place the faculty program on a sound basis by providing essential buildings and equipment, particularly for the science faculty.
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