Though still in uniform, Jewish soldiers from England, attached to the British forces in Palestine, have registered as prospective settlers in the colony of Kfar Hanitzachon (Victory Village), which will be the first settlement established after the war, it was announced today at a conference at Nahalal called to discuss the expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestine.
A girls’ trade school was opened here today in the eighty-year-old building which formerly housed the Hadassah-Rothschild Hospital. Speaking at the dedication exercises, Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University, pointed out that the opening of the school, which was made possible by funds sent by the Hadassah, coincided with the Hadassah convention now being held in New York.
Dr. Magnes also spoke today at the opening of the Pharmacological Institute of the Hebrew University here, stressing that without such an institute no complete medical faculty can exist. He stressed the role the Institute can play in the development of Palestine’s pharmaceutical industry, which is of vital importance to the war effort. It was also reported here today the after years of experimentation at the Agricultural Station in Rehoboth and in various settlements, the cultivation of medical plants has begun on a commercial scale at a number of settlements in Palestine.
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