Weizmann Institute Adopts Budget

An IL 71.3 million operating budget for next year was approved yesterday by the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science at the closing session of its annual meeting in Rehovoth. The Board decided to concentrate its fund-raising efforts on operational monies rather than funds for new buildings.

Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir told the Board that he felt endowment funds should be given top priority in fund-raising efforts but he did not think that “such funds should be set up separately for each of Israel’s seven institutions of higher learning.”

The closing session honored the donors of 11 new buildings and four new chairs. It bestowed honorary fellowships on Nobel Laureate Prof. Andre M. Lwoff of France and David Ginsberg of Washington, D.C. who headed several Presidential commissions.

Attorney General Meir Shamgar reported today that there was no basis to allegations that Defense Minister Moshe Dayan illegally exported antiquities for sale. Shamgar, who was asked to investigate the allegations by Deputy Premier and Education Minister Yigal Allon, said he found no need for any further investigation or action.

The Soviet government has apparently put into effect its recent ruling barring telephone calls considered contrary to national interests, the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry said today. The Conference said that according to a source in Vilna, seven Jewish activists there have had their phones disconnected for using them for “anti-Soviet purposes,” The activists’ names were not reported by the source. The Conference also said a number of Vilna activists have been invited to the visa office Dec. 2-16, the latter date two days before the opening of the Supreme Soviet jubilee session.