Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation has granted scholarships to a number of Israel postgraduate students for advanced study in the United States, it was announced here today by Sidney Picker, chairman of the Foundation’s Israel Scholarship Committee.
The program has been arranged in cooperation with leading American universities and the Israeli Ministry of Education, and provides for exchange scholarships being granted to American students in the Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute and Technion.
The plan envisages Israel students being domiciled at the fraternity’s undergraduate chapter houses in this country, and calls for the Israel students to assist in the economic development of Israel after completion of graduate study here.
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