Solomon Ettingen, engineer and lecturer on railways at the Hebrew Technical Institute at Haifa, who arrived in New York yesterday on the S.S. Bremen, is expected here to participate in the International Traffic Congress which opens next Monday, August 25.
Before Mr. Ettingen began his lectures at the Technical Institute he was active in various fields of engineering. He was the engineer of the Solel Boneh and conducted the public works in Tel Aviv and its vicinity. Later he was the communication engineer of the Public Works Department of the Palestine government.
Mr. Ettingen has published several monographs on public works and the Palestine railways.
During his stay in America, Mr. Ettingen will deliver a series of lectures on subjects concerning Palestine. With Mr. Ettingen came his wife, Hannah Ettingen, an agronomist, who participates in the work of the experimental farm station of the Jewish Agency in Palestine and conducts special courses on household economics among the workers’ wives.
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