An invitation to its scientists and engineers to advise the Jewish Agency in determining the priority of private industrial enterprises to be established shortly in Israel was issued here today by the American Technion Society at the concluding session of its two-day National Planning Conference.
The conference brought together delegates from thirty key cities and five regional districts in the United States and Canada to map plans for the $20,000,000 drive for rebuilding the Israel Institute of Technology on a new campus site in Haifa. The American organization is underwriting one-half of this amount, which it plans to raise within the next few years in the United States and Canada.
The delegates resolved to bring to the attention of the Jewish community at large the importance of technological and engineering education as primary requisites for making the State of Israel economically self-sufficient. They urged the Jewish community to exert its full efforts to aid the vital program which is being carried out by the Technion in training engineers, architects, and technicians to further Israel’s rapid industrial and agricultural growth.
Another resolution requested organized welfare funds and other agencies throughout the United States and Canada to permit the society to hold special capital fund drives for aiding the rebuilding of the Technion in Haifa. Resolutions were also adopted extending the sympathy of the organization’s membership to the government and people of Israel on the death of Dr. Chaim Weizmann.
Victor Avrunin, technical adviser to the Jewish Agency, told the delegates that the Agency’s new plan for establishing private enterprise industries in Israel entails American processes and know-how as well as capital, and that it is absolutely essential that their vast technical training and experience be utilized to review the projects which are now being planned. He disclosed that over a hundred industrial enterprises, of which about a dozen are ready for immediate construction, are being considered.
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