July 9, 1999

Israeli Institute Switches Sights From Agriculture to Biotechnology

Sign of the times in Israel: While early Zionists saw the country's future in agriculture, those of today see it in biotechnology. As evidence, consider this change at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology: The new dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering is renaming it the Faculty of Biological Engineering.

The faculty, founded in 1953, traditionally has focused on developing irrigation and

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