H. Darin-Drabkin of the Hebrew University has been elected director for the next four years of the International Research Center for Rural Cooperative Communities. His election means that the Center secretariat will be in Jerusalem for that period.
The Center, which was started in 1956, will work with the Food and Agricultural Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations. The Center includes some of the world’s top experts in rural cooperation. It will make studies in Tanzania, Malaysia, India, Israel, the Soviet Union, Poland and a Latin American country.
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