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Max Rowe was born in 1912 . He was a barrister by profession , called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1937 . He practiced law in England until 1948 , with the interruption of four years of service as a major in British Intelligence during World War H . He joined the Rothschild Foundation in 1948 as director of the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association ( P . LCA . ) and in 1966 became the director general of the foundation . A man of rare vision and creativity , Max Rowe was responsible for the establishment in Israel of several major institutions that introduced technology into education . He was the major force in the creation of Israel Instructional Television in 1964 and became its chief executive . In 1971 he founded the Center for Educational Technology and became its chairman . He was also the founding president of Everyman's University and subsequently , until his death in 1985 , he served as vice-chancellor of the university . His profound commitment to culture in Israel led to the formation of the Jerusalem Music Center , which serves as a seat of master instruction by world-renowned musicians . Max Rowe's most recent project was the New School of Technology , which is to be an affiliate of Everyman's University . The Hebrew University in Jerusalem conferred on him the degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa in 1982 .
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