Rehovot Develops Unit for Field
Infusions in Freezing Weather
18—Friday, March 8, 1974
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Valuable Documents Given to Hebrew U.
WALTHAM, Mass.—Photo-
copies of several thousand
pamphlets, telegrams, posters
and letters showing eco-
nomic, political and moral
support offered Israel by
American and Canadian
Christians and Jews during
the recent Mideast war have
been given to the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem by
the American Jewish Histor-
ical Society (AJHS).
The materials were pre-
sented to the University's In-
stitute of Contemporary
Jewry by Society Director
Bernard Wax during a recent
trip to Israel. The originals
remain at the society's head-
quarters on the campus of
Brandeis University,' and are
Golda at Hadassah Hospital
available for study and ,re-
search.
Wax said it was the So-
ciety's intention to establish
a "Mideast Collection" to
serve as a primary source of
information and reference for
future historians "who would
include the tenor of Ameri-
can and Canadian support"
in their chronicles of this
latest period of hostilities in
Israel.
REHOVOT — A lightweight
Dr. Chone, who left Egypt
apparatus for giving liquid in that year, and is now a
infusions in freezing outdoor member of the faculty of
temperatures has been de- Brown University in the U.S.,
veloped by the medical engi- is one of the 116 researchers
neering group of the Weiz- from 19 countries spending
mann Institute's electronics this academic year at the
department in cooperation Weizmann Institute. While
with the Army Medic al the U.S. contingent is again
Corps.
the largest, the percentage
The department is similarly of Americans has decreased,
involved in several other while that of the Europeans,
projects related to military including scientists from
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sented the medical engineer- verge in the institute's de-
ing group with a pressing partment of science teaching
probleM — at the subfreezing each week to attend the 13
temperatures • experienced by clubs organized and run by
SPECIALIST
Israeli troops in the north, the youth activities section.
IN
VOLKSWAGEN
life-saving infusions were
Science clubs are only one
AND
freezing and couldn't be ad- aspect of the Institute's var-
PORSCHE CARS
ministered.
ied programs for young peo-
"Our goal was a simple ple. Others include science
Premier Golda Meir, as d'o all Israeli officials, regularly
device, easily carried and op- summer camps for Israel and visits the wounded soldiers for chats with them. and their
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man," explained a staff mem- a math olympiad and special isolated from the population but are treated in the same
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ber. "The apparatus we de- tutoring in the sciences run hospitals with civilians. By seeing children and old people,
veloped remains operative by institute graduate students they have a sense of being part of the life around them,
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even in freezing conditions," under the direction of the even when their hospital stay must be extended for re-
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quiring sophisticated treatment.
A prototype for field testing
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was built with the aid of the
institute's physics and gen-
eral mechanics workshops,
which, in an unprecedented
step, are continuing to as-
semble the device "because
REHOVOT — A new tech-
there has not yet been time nique for treating burns — that in the cases studied so
transcription of genetic
to arrange for its production a problem of special urgency far,
by a regular firm." Future in the wake of Yom Kippur material is symmetric, from
plans, however, include man- War injuries — has been de- both strands of the DNA, and
ufacturing the device on a veloped by Prof. Israel that control of genetic ex-
Snappy outfitting for the man
commercial basis, since it Schechter of the Weizmann pression occurs in the post-
In step with his time. Poplin weave
should be useful not only to Institute's chemical immu- transcriptional level.
Dr. Richard Kempa, senior
the armed forces but also in nology department.
Safari jacket of polyester and cotton,
lecturer in chemical educa-
other cold weather emergen-
has a cinch waist, epaqlettes and
This technique, which sig- tion at the school of chemi-
cies, such as ski accidents
four buttoned pockets.
nificantly delays the rejection cal sciences, University of
and avalanches.
Poplin Shirt Jack $26.00
of "foreign" skin grafts by East Anglia, is on his fifth
In other news from Reho- "erasing" the antigenic sig-
Poplin Slax $25.00
working visit to the Weiz-
vot, the institute is now play- nals
Poplin
Safari $40.00
that ordinarily cause re-
ing host to an Egyptian- jection, has been used suc- mann Institute's science
Ivory, Gold & Navy
teaching
department,
where
trained visiting scientist, Dr. cessfully with laboratory ani-
Claude Cohen, who earned is mals and is now being tested he is serving as a UNESCO
consultant with Prof. David
BSc degree at the American in
a number of Israeli hos- Samuel, head of the depart-
University of Cairo in 1966. pitals.
ment's chemistry group.
Initial results with a small
Kempa has been active
Aussie Welfare Unit number of patients have been in Dr.
the reform of the Israeli
Sends Furids to JDC encouraging, but additional high school chemistry curric-
NEW YORK—"Austcare," tests and careful cross- ulum. In connection with this
an Australian inter-denomina- checks must still be carried project, he has been involved
tional welfare organization, out before Prof. Schechter's in an experiment to test to
has sent the Joint Distribu- technique can be adopted for what degree the dependence
on expensive laboratory
tion Committee a gift of general use.
$14,500 for the care of Jewish
Meanwhile, research on kthe equipment, unavailable in
migrants and needy immi- processes whereby cancer- many Israeli schools, can be
grants in Israel, it was re- causing viruses affect the ge- replaced by audio-visual aids.
ported by Samuel L. Haber, netic makeup of the cells
Prof. Ora Kedem, who has
JDC executive vice chair- they infect will be supported done significant research on
man.
by a grant of $126,000 for membranes for desalination
Over $8,700 was sent di- three years from the U.S. and purification of water, will
rectly to Israel, where it will National Institutes of Health head a new Laboratory of
be used principally to care to Dr. Yosef Aloni of the Membranes and Bio-Regula-
for chronically ill aged in Weizmann Institute's depart- tion, to be established at the
Pictured is but one of the
JDC-Malben homes, Haber ment of genetics, headed by Weizmann Institute of Science
many Shirt Suit Ideas
said. The balance, $5,800, will Prof. Leo Sachs.
on April 1, within the frame-
Set forth by Princeton
be used to aid transmigrants
In the course of the study, work of the institute's bio-
in Europe.
We have the most popular
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This is the third successive already under way for two
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refugees in various parts of ting and dividing into groups of biological membranes, and
in
particular,
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role
of
human
chromosomes
in
order
the world, has sent a contri-
bution to JDC. Most of the to "map" the genetic mark- membrane dynamics in the
funds for JDC's world-wide ers found on the chromo- life and function of the cell,
health and welfare programs somes. The next step in this as well as energy conversion
come from the United Jewish research will be to deter- by membranes.
mine which chromosomes
Appeal.
Prof. Kedem holds the
carry the viral genes.
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