THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Feb. 15, 1974-17
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Hebrew University Chair I s s Name
for Michigan Industrialist Cohodas
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JERUSALEM — A chair
in agricultural economics,
which may enhance Israel's
agricultural production and
export, was dedicated at the
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Hebrew University's faculty
of agriculture in Rehovot in
the presence of Sam M. Co-
hodas, industrialist and fin-
ancier of Ishpeming, Mich.
who established the chair.
The decision took place
at a luncheon at the faculty,
hosted by University Presi-
dent Avraham Harman, in
the first ceremony of its
kind at the university since
the Yom Kippur War.
It was attended by some
60 guests, including scien-
tists and teachers of the
SAM COHODAS
faculty. Representing the
ministry of agriculture was
Charles Akiva Landau, di-
rector of the ministry's ov-
er-all planning department.
The son of an apple grow-
er in Poland, Cohodas to-
gether with his four brothers
started a wholesale fruit and
grocery business in the
United States in 1915 which,
under the name Cohodas
Brothers, became a house-
hold word in the Upper Pen-
insula of Michigan. The
business eventually spread
to Wisconsin, California and
the state of Washington.
In 1944, Cohodas Brothers
began growing fruit in the
Yakima Valley of Washing-
ton, and in addition to being
grower and sales agent, the
firm is the largest fruit
shipper in Yakima. Later,
the Cohodas family became
bankers in Upper Michigan
and also became involved
in newspaper and mining en-
terprises.
Cohodas, 78, regarded as
Ishpeming's leading citizen,
is a supporter of higher ed-
ucation and local charities
in Michigan as well as in
Israel. At last year's Israel
Bond dinner in Ishpeming,
he was awarded the Prime
Minister's Medal for Service
in the cause of Israel's de-
velopment. He was a mem-
ber of the group of 500 Jew-
ish leaders who wound up
the week-long Prime Min-
ister's International Israel
Bond Conference.
A patron of the Hebrew
University's Faculty of Ag-
riculture, Cohodas—in addi-
tion to endowing the chair
in agricultural economics—
also established a scholar-
ship for a student in March
1973.
Commenting on the im-
portance of the establish-
ment of the chair, Landau
said that the value of Israel's
agricultural production in the
last few years increased at
a rate of 7 per cent annual-
ly, reaching IL 3,363,000,000
($840,750,000) in October
1973 and that about half of
this increase was due to
technological progress and
efficient management.
Some years ago, Israeli
agronomists were mainly
concerned with increasing
agricultural production and
not with the aspects of mar-
keting and economics. To-
day, it is realized that it is
not enough to produce well,
but that one has to optimize
allocation of natural re-
sources to crops, input (la-
bor, capital) and marketing.
This calls for a very sophis-
ticated knowledge of eco-
nomics, management a n d
marketing abroad.
Expressing the university's
gratitude for establishing the
chair, Harman said that
Cohodas is an exemplar of
that group of American Jew-
ish men and women who have
remained loyal to their
people and have assumed a
personal responsibility and
identification with the wel-
fare of the Jewish people.
Harman said that it is
fitting that Sam Cohodas
should be connected with the
Hebrew University's faculty
of agriculture "because he
has blazed trails in the ag-
ricultural progress of many
parts of the United States,
not only in methods of pro-
duction, but in methods of
distribution , and in the ef-
fective planning of the
growth of the industry."
Prof. Yair Mundlak, dean
of the faculty, said that "the
most important problem in
the university today, and
this is also true for the facul
ty of agriculture, is that we
have many more ideas than
resources, and this gap more
or less dictates our progress.
It is against this background
that the university expresses
its gratitude to Sam Cohodas
for his generosity."
Harman presented Cohodas
with a dedicatory scroll.
U.S. Funds Aid
Center for Olim
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
first project for absorbing
immigrants in Israel con-
structed with funds from two
American grants to Israel
totalling $72,000,000 was ded-
icated in Rehovot in the pres-
ence of American officials
headed by Ambassador Frank
L. Kellog, special assistant to
the secretary of state for
Refugees and Migration Af-
fairs, and U. S. Ambassador_
Kenneth Keating.
Jewish Agency acting
chairman Leon Dulzin, Unit-
ed Israel Appeal chairman
Melvin Dgbinsky and Reho-
vot Mayor Shmuel Rechtman
also were present.
The project, a $2,500,000
absorption center, will pro-
vide initial accomodation for
immigrants until they can be
permanently absorbed.
Addressing the gathering,
Kellog said that the U. S. will
provide Israel with grants for
absorbing immigrants by aid-
ing housing construction, im-
proving social absorption con-
ditions and economic integra-
tion, and will construct hos-
pitals for immigrants. He re-
vealed that his office is pre-
paring plans to help absorb
musicians and artists, espe-
cially from the Soviet Union.
Keating said that the U. S.
has no greater friend than
Israel and that Israel has no
better friend than the U. S.
The new center is "a link in
the chain that brings people
to a country so special, so
dear to them," he said.
Affectation hides three
times as many virtues as
charity does sins.—Horace
Mann.