Prime Minister Levi Eshkol today appointed Professor Ephraim Katchalski, of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, as Chief Scientist of Israel’s defense establishment. Dr. Katchalski’s function in the newly created post will be to see to it that scientific research does not lag behind in the military field.
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