The board of governors of the Hebrew University last night opened a regular session with a meeting devoted to the memory of the late President Weizmann, one of the founders of the institution. The sessions are being attended by 23 members of the board who reside in Israel and a number from the United States. Britain, Switzerland and Sweden.
Prof. Benjamin Mazer, rector of the University was today named president of the institution for a two-year period. The board of governors also decided that Prof. Mazer should continue as rector during the period. It also named Israel president Isaac Ben Zvi honorary president of the institution.
Earlier, Zalman Shazar, member of the Jewish Agency executive, reported to the session that the Agency had allocated 250,000 pounds to the University and that negotiations are going on for including the institution in the campaign of the United Jewish Appeal. Dr. Israel Wechsler, American member of the board of governors, who presided at today’s meeting, reported that the University had obtained $150,000 from the Julius and Miriam Schneider Fund for Neuropsychiatry.
Other problems to be discussed by the board at this session will include the reconstruction of the University now that the government has granted it an acceptable new site, and academic organizational matters, including a new procedure for making appointments to the staff and granting promotions.
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