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the State of Israel, David Ben-
Gurion pointed an accusing fin-
ger at the Technion, Israel's
Institute of Technology in Haifa,
and charged that it was a bot-
tleneck in the new industrial de-
velopment of the country
because it was not turning out a
sufficient number of engineers
to meet the demand.
In response to the plea that
the Institute could not absorb
more students in its cramped
quarters in downtown Haifa, the
government made available a
new 300-acre campus on the up-
per slopes of Mount Carmel, and
the Technion took off.
The results have been evident
in the amazing development of
Israel as a world renowned cen-
ter for high technology. Some of
the largest high-tech firms in the
world have been attracted to Is-
rael because of the creativeness
and ingenuity of the country's
technological manpower.
The came the massive immi-
gration from the former Soviet
Union, and with it a very high
percentage of scientific and tech-
nical personnel. The fear was
that Israel would be faced with
a surplus of engineers. But the
demand for suitably trained ex-
perts quickly caught up with the
supply and soon exceeded it. Last
month the Technion, now with
an enrollment of 10,500 stu-
dents, produced more that 1,500
graduates, the largest graduat-
ing class in its history; but the
demand continues to grow.
Some months ago an employ-
ment fair was held at the Tech-
nion city campus; and 90
companies set up booths, seek-
ing employees. They were will-
ing to offer contracts, applicable
upon graduation, even to stu-
dents in their second year. Many
hundreds of students were
signed up.
Recently, it was estimated
that today there is a shortage of
no less than 6,000 engineers in
Israel, half of them in the com-
puter field; and there is even talk
of importing engineers from In-
dia. Technion President Zehev
Tadmor bristles at the sugges-
tion that once again the Tech-
nion is a bottleneck and reveals
that within the next few years
the institute will increase its en-
rollment to 15,000. That will re-
quire a large investment in plant
and equipment, not to speak of
the availability of properly qual-
ified academic personnel.
Other universities have begun
to add engineering studies to
their curriculum, but Technion
remains the acknowledged cen-