Max A. Braude, director-general of ORT, visiting New York in connection with 1964 financing of ORT’s 22-country network of vocational schools, informed a meeting of the American ORT executive committee here today that thousands of recent applicants in France and Israel had to be turned away for lack of funds.
He reported that, as of November, enrollment in all training services had risen between 6,000 and 7,000 over the previous year, a jump of 25 to 30 per cent. Despite massive emigration in several areas, there have been no fall-offs of the numbers receiving instruction anywhere in ORT’s far-flung educational system, he said. “We have had tremendous increases in two areas, the major countries of migrant reception, Israel and France,” he stressed.
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