The Government approved yesterday the establishment of a corporation to found an Arab university on the West Bank, a project that has been in the talking stage for more than two years. The education officer of the West Bank Military Command has relayed the decision to the university’s founding committee headed by Sheikh Mohammed Ali el-Jaabari, the Mayor of Hebron.
The projected university will establish faculties in four West Bank towns: natural science in Ramallah; arts and social science in Nablus: agriculture in Tulkarem; and Islamic studies in Hebron. Financing will come from former Palestinian Arabs and West Bank circles. The Israeli Education Ministry will not Involve itself in the institution except to screen the curricula for anti-Israel material.
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