Weizmann Researcher
Wins Hestrin Award

REHOVOTH, Israel—A 34-year-
old Weizmann Institute researcher,
Dr. Yitzhak Steinberg, was award-
ed the Shlomo Hestrin Prize, in a
ceremony which took place at the
department of biological chemistry
of the Hebrew University.
The Prize is given biennially by
the I s r a e l Biochemical Society,
for an outstanding biochemical re-
search project carried out mainly
in Israel by an Israeli scientist
under the age of 35.
A s c r o 11 commemorating the
event was handed to Dr. Steinberg
by Prof. Michael Sela, president of
the Israel Biochemical Society and
head of the Weizmann Institute's
chemical immunology section.
Dr. Steinberg, acting head of the
Institute's Chemical Physics Sec-
tion, received the award for his
work in developing a simpler, fast-
er and more general method of
analysing data obtained in ultra-
centrifugal experiments with mate-
rials of high molecular weight, such
as proteins and nucleic acids.
In these experiments the com-
pounds concerned are spun around
at very high speeds in the centri-
fuge, and from their rate of sedi-
mentation biochemists determine
the weight, size and over-all shape
of their molecules.
Dr. Steinberg's method, which is
based on a new mathematic ap-
proach to the problem, consider-
ably simplifies the treatment of
the experimental data and permits
the interpretation of results that
could not be adequately interpreted
before.
The young scientist has also just
receiving an MSc from the He-
tion — a three-year, $38,500 U.S.
National Institutes of Health grant
to investigate the "Role of Disul-
fide Bridges in Protein Conforma-
tions."
The purpose of this study is to
learn how the internal bonds of a
protein molecule affect its ;three-
dimensional structure and its bio-
logical activity.
Jerusalem-born D r . Steinberg
came to the Institute in 1956 after
receiving an M.Sc. from the He-
brew University. He earned his
doctorate in 1960 for work done
under Professor Ephraim Katchal-
ski, Head of the Biophysics Depart-
ment. After spending two years in
the United States at Cornell Uni-
versity and the University of Cal-
ifornia, he returned to Rehovoth to
join the Chemical Physics Section.

Voluntary Reductions in Wages to Fight Spiral Mount in Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA) — In the
face of rising prices and continu-
ing fears of possible inflation, more
and more Israelis this week were
volunteering to have their incomes
reduced as a possible deterrent
against the burgeoning inflationary
cycle.
Even as more price hikes were
in the offing, with the costs of
telephone service and postal rates
about to double, hundreds of Isra-
elis, individuals as well as work-
ers' committees in various enter-
prises, sent telegrams and letters
to the Prime Minister's Office, or
telephoned to announce voluntary
cuts.
Israelis joined the popular
movement by offering to re-
nounce pay increases, give up
part of their cost-of-living allow-
ances, waive retroactive wage in-
creases and even voluntarily take
reductions in pension payments.
The latest development in the
trend toward a higher cost of liv-
ing was the adoption by a sub-
committee of the finance commit-
tee of the Knesset (Parliament) of
a proposal to increase telephone
and postal rates.
The government's central statis-
tical office made public Monday
data showing that, during 1965,
salaries and wages had increased
by an average of 18 per cent. In
some sectors of the economy, such
as employment in the transport in-
dustry, wages had gone up by 21
per cent.
At the same time, however, the
report showed, Israeli industrial
production has continued to rise
in the last few months, going up
by well over 3 per cent, while the
number of work days in industry
remained constant.
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
called on Israel's farmers Sun-
day night to hold the price line
for agriculture products. Ad-
dressing 500 delegates to the
10th conference of the Hista-
drut Agricultural Center, he ap-
pealed for "return of the pio-
neering spirit and the dedica-
tion of 40 and 50 years ago."
Conceding that the economic
situation has not given reason for
"a festive mood," Eshkol said:
"The time has come to stop patting
ourselves an our backs and to face
hard facts. Israel can no longer
be dependent on others—not only
because others do not want to help
us any more but also because this
is the way it should be.
He reiterated his call on the Is-

raeli farmers to maintain price
stability and told the agricultural
delegates: "I know that some of
you will ask: What about industry?
Do not worry. I will get around
to industry too."
Meanwhile, however, one group
of workers—those employed in the
restaurant in the Knesset building
—went on a warning strike Mon-
day, demanding pay increases. The
w orkers requested that the con-
cessionaire conducting the restau-
rant bring their pay up to the
wages paid other employes in the
building.
They rejected an offer by the
concessionaire to bring their pay
up to that paid by other restau-
rants in Jerusalem, insisting that
those wage scales are inadequate.
Commerce and Industry Min-
ister Haim Zadok disclosed Tues-
day that a special division of the
finance ministry was considering
further cuts in the new national
budget.
Premier Levi Eshkol announced
last week a cut of 100,000,000
pounds in the $1,500,000,000 bud-
get for the next fiscal year start-
ing April 1.
The commerce minister said
he was "definitely not of the
opinion that
pounds

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Katz in his policy dispute with Dr.
TEL AVIV—The senate of Tel George Wise, who resigned as
Aviv University adopted a resolu- president of the university last
tion supporting Rector Benzion week. Prof. Katz is ex-officio chair-
man of the university senate.
In the resolution, the senate de-
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is the limit of savings which can measures. He indicated that lib-
be effected in the budget."
eralization of imports might be
Touching on other phases of Is- used to cope with price boosts.
rael's battle against a growing in -
flation marked by spiraling price
increases, Zadok praised the cur-
rent movement of voluntary fore-
going by Israeli wage earners of
parts of their salaries or retroac-
tive pay boosts but added that such
actions could not "of course" re-
place an over-all economic policy
which he said was essentially the
task of government.
He said his ministry was adopt-
ing a firm line on further price
increases aimed at restraining such
boosts as far as possible by per-
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