(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The water works project of Tel Aviv, the first Jewish city in Palestine, was the thesis of a dissertation by a Jewish student in the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw.
Ignacy Landstock received the diploma of engineer on the basis of his study on the Tel Aviv project. It was stated that this is the first case of a Polish college issuing a degree on the basis of a Palestine subject. The faculty expressed satisfaction with Landstock’s study.
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