The swift growth of higher education in Israel was very much in evidence today as three major universities moved ahead with expansion projects with the blessings of the Prime Minister and members of his cabinet.
Tel Aviv University laid the cornerstone of its ten-story medical school building and will lay another cornerstone Sunday for its new Peretz Naftali social science faculty building. Haifa University, Israel’s youngest, dedicated its first building yesterday and Bar Ilan University will dedicate its Gustav Wurz-weiler Library on Sunday.
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Minister of Education Zalman Aranne attended the Haifa dedication. Mr. Eshkol declared that higher education should not be made to serve the selfish ends of those possessing it but should serve the country and the people.
Speaking at the site of the new medical school in Tel Aviv, Health Minister Israel Barzilai said “it is unfortunate that we meet to rejoice in such a ceremony while the victims of the destroyer Elath have been laid to their eternal rest. But the nation must remember that the country’s very strength comes from its ability to forge ahead and lay the groundwork for moral and spiritual development of a new generation.”
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