The board of directors of the National Committee for Labor Israel adopted a goal of $500,000 to finance 2,000 vocational training scholarships for teen-agers in Israel, at its meeting here today. The program will be executed by the Histadrut Scholarship Fund, established in 1957.
The board stressed that scholarships will be granted primarily to young applicants coming from large-sized immigrant families with low income, residing in new development areas in Israel. Most of the training will be provided in the network of 17 Amal vocational schools of Histadrut throughout Israel. The effort on behalf of the scholarship fund will be an integral part of the 41st annual Israel Histadrut campaign which is now under way.
Israel Yeshayahu, deputy speaker of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, told the board meeting that Histadrut was the first instrument “making all tribes of Israel equals, not only formally but in actuality. ” He stressed that Histadrut must take a greater role in the education of youth because the pioneering physiognomy of the country depends on the kind of education young people will receive during their formative years.
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