Israel was among four countries newly accepted to membership in the permanent International Council of the Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences which concluded its fifth meeting here. Israel was represented at the meeting by Immanuel Ben-Dor, deputy director of the Department of Antiquities of the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture, currently a visiting lecturer on Biblical archaeology at the Harvard Divinity School.
Israeli nominees for posts on the International Council, named by Minister of Education Zalman Arrane, are: L. A. Mayer, Professor of Moslem Art and Archaeology at the Hebrew University; S. Yeivin, director of the Department of Antiquities; Yigal Yadin, former Army chief of staff and now director of the excavations at Hatzor; S. N. Eisenstadt, Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University; Mrs. Phyllis Palgi, anthropologist, and Mr. Ben-Dor.
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