Benjamin Levich, the world-renowned Soviet Jewish scientist and activist leader who emigrated to Israel late last year, will continue to make his home in Israel and his main academic base at Tel Aviv University, it was disclosed today. Levich, who arrived here on a visit earlier this week, is expected to be offered the Einstein Chair, a distinguished professorship at City College, by the New York State Board of Regents. But he has imposed two conditions which the Board is expected to accept.
He will teach at City College only during the spring semester, spending the rest of the academic year at Tel Aviv University, where he has been named to a chair in physiochemical mechanics and where a research team is being established for him and members of his Tel Aviv University research team will be permitted to help him teach his classes at City College.
Levich is regarded as a prize catch in the competitive world of American academia. He is being courted actively by Columbia University here and other institutions. But Levich told friends he will remain in Israel except for relatively brief and short-term periods when at City College or another American college or university.
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