More than 540 American scientists and engineers volunteered their technical assistance to Israel during 1951, it was reported today at a national conference of the American Technion Society by Maurice Spertus, chairman of the Society’s technological committee. Some of them visited Israel in person and others conferred with Israeli representatives who have been sent here for the purpose of observing and learning American industrial methods and techniques.
Mr. Spertus also announced that the Society had brought 30 engineer graduates of the Technion to the United States, where they are now taking post-graduate course; in American industrial techniques in plants owned by members of the Society located throughout the United States and Canada.
A recommendation that the Society immediately increase its efforts to aid Israel’s fledgling industry by channeling more technological aid and expert advice to Israel was made at the conference by James M. Silberman of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who advises the United States Government on its Point Four program of aid to Israel. The conference was attended by delegates from 27 cities in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.
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