Britain’s foremost scientific journal, Nature, pays tributes in its current issue to the work accomplished by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, declaring it holds out promise that Jerusalem may soon “once again become the center of learning in the Near and Middle East.” The magazine cites the progress mad by the University in various fields of research, lists faculty members who have become pre-eminent in their academic fields and points out that nearly 50 exiled German scholars have found positions at the institution.
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