The first $40,000 of a $300,000 goal for the establishment of a dental school at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was raised here at a reception of the dentists division of the American Committee for the University, Weizmann Institute of Science and the Haifa Technion. The reception honored Prof. Leo Olitzki, head of the University’s Department of Bactericlogy.
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