The fourth conference on Jewish education sponsored by the Federation of Argentine Jewish Communities and the Jewish Board of Education opened here today with the participation of some 600 delegates from all parts of the country.
Among the speakers who addressed the conference was Yitzhak Harkavi, head of the Jewish Agency Department of Education and Culture in Jerusalem, who stressed the need to train sufficient teachers to cope with the increase in the numbers of pupils in Jewish schools. Noting that the Agency was prepared to give all possible aid in the educational field, he said that Israel should be the center of gravity of Jewish education for Jewish communities throughout the world.
Other speakers included Abba Geffen, the Israeli charge d’affaires, who eulogized the late Jewish Agency chairman, Moshe Sharett; Israel Honik, chairman of the Argentine Jewish Board of Education; and Zvi Faingersch, president of the Buenos Aires Kehilla, which contributes substantially for the support of Jewish education.
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