Israel’s Cabinet voted today to close down the National Defense College next June, after the present class at that facility is graduated. The decision was made on the basis of a report by a special committee previously named by the Government, headed by Prof. Yigael Yadin, former chief of staff of Israel’s defense forces and a major-general in the Army Reserve.
The committee stated that the one-year classes at the college are comparatively small, consisting of senior army officers and high government officials, and that they have duplicate courses in Israel’s universities. If only university graduates were to be admitted, and the college enlarged, there might be a place for the college, the committee declared.
Voting to shut down the college, which was founded in 1963, the Cabinet decided that, meanwhile, summer courses will be offered to replace those given at the college. The Defense Ministry was instructed to study the possibility of reestablishing the college at the university level. Brig. Gen, Elad Peled, commander of the college, has been named as director of Israeli television, for which preparations are now in full swing.
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