139 Americans left last week to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, it was announced today by Prof. Oscar I. Janowsky and Dr. Henry Sonneborn III, co-chairmen of the America-Israel University Program.
This includes a record number who left Friday to attend the University for a full year as part of the American Student Program of the American Friends of the Hebrew University. It included 87 students from 48 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Of the students in the full-year program, 52 were awarded scholarships in varying amounts totaling $44,450.
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