The Israel Adult Education Association has rejected a grant of $4000 from UNESCO to aid it in a planned survey of adult educators in Israel. “In view of the resolutions adopted by the 18th General Conference regarding Israel’s position in UNESCO, (we) cannot of course agree to accept the research grant,” the association wrote to UNESCO’s Paris headquarters. “We shall find ways and means of conducting the survey without UNESCO participation, and we shall look for ways of distributing the survey report among adult educationalists throughout the world without UNESCO’s assistance.”
Copies of the letter were sent to the UNESCO. Director General and to the Israel delegation to UNESCO. It was signed by Dr. Yehezkel Cohen, chairman of the association, which is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Cohen also stated: “It is highly regrettable that at the 18th General Conference an unholy alliance of blatantly vested political interests succeeded in forcibly imposing upon UNESCO a sharp change in policy regarding equality of member states….The harm done to UNESCO…may prove irreparable….”
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