Two grants to Israeli scientific institutions, and one to a prominent Jewish community center in this city, were made in 1957 by the Rockefeller Foundation, according to the annual 1957-1958 report made public here today by Dean Rusk, president of the Foundation.
In the category of grants “with long range relation to the world’s food supply,” a grant of $50,000 was awarded to the National Physical Laboratory at Jerusalem, Israel. The fund is to be used for research in solar energy. To aid research in virology at the Virus Laboratory of the Israel Ministry of Health, a grant of $62,000 was given to the Israel Foundations Trustees at Jerusalem.
Among the awards to aid the arts, the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association of New York (known as the “92nd Street Y”) received $20,600 for development of the Y’s poetry center.
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