Severe on campus economy measures combined with increased fundraising efforts in Israel and abroad will be the program in the coming year of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Its executive council today passed an austerity budget of $15.1 million for fiscal 1972-73–only $1.2 million more than the previous year.
The board also approved a $19.8 million development budget for the next five years, of which $3.8 million will be spent in 1971-72. Board chairman Abraham Feinberg said he was concerned about what he called the Inadequate support of the Jewish Agency, which he said had forced the austerity budget in conjunction with steep price and wage increases. But he promised that the Institute’s high standards would be maintained.
In another development, Prof, Nathan Sharon of the Institute has been awarded a grant of $119,048 from the United States Institute of Health for continued research on lysozyme, a bacteria-killing protein discovered by the late Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. Dr. Moshe Ziv of the Haifa Technion’s aeronautical engineering faculty has received $20,000 from the US Air Force to study the effects of projectile and meteorite impact on aircraft and space vehicles.
Eighty-two percent of the American people favor an agreement between the US and Russia bringing about a Middle East settlement, according to the results of a Harris poll published today Seven percent of the respondents were opposed to such a deal and 11 percent were “not sure.”
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