The executive council of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will shortly consider a project providing for the establishment of a UNESCO Institute of Science in Israel, it was disclosed here today by Dr. Moshe Avidar, director-general of the Jewish Agency in Israel and Israel’s delegate on the UNESCO executive council.
The proposed institute, he said, would work in close liaison with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, in the training of scientists and engineers from underdeveloped countries. The projected institute is part of an overall Israeli plan to intensify her activities in Asia and Africa under UNESCO auspices.
Dr. Avidar, who was formerly director-general of the Israel Ministry of Education, said that the plan to establish the UNESCO institute in Israel has been warmly welcomed by a number of delegates in the course of preliminary, unofficial conversations.
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