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据《自然》周刊记者海姆·沃兹曼从耶路撒冷报道,以色列政府资助前苏联移民科学家研究工作的计划可能会成为以色列新政府决定紧缩预算的牺牲品,这是一些为获取上述资助而进行政府游说的以色列科学家所透露的消息。 最近以色列内阁会议否决了财政部的一项关于取消支持在大学和私人部门研究机构工作的移民科学家的计划提供资助的提案。但它规定,对这些计划的任何扩大资助都只能是出自于负责安置苏联移民的“吸收部”的现有预算。 内阁会议还决定建立一个委员会来确定现行的和所拟议的有关创造科学就业机会的计划是否“必不可少”和“值得”的。吸收部的一位发言人称内阁会议的上述决定是一个“胜利”,因为它仍然保持前劳工党政府在选举前所批准的100万美元就业补贴。 但那些支持对前苏联移民科学家进行就业补贴的以色列科学家的反应却是迷惘和愤怒。因为他们获知,政府的预算削减意味着已再没钱对有关计划提供资助。 耶路撒冷希伯莱大学哈达塞医学院的解剖学助理教授内森·帕斯特拉说“移民科学家现在都感到忧心忡忡”。从90年代初到现在已有50多万前苏联居民迁移以色列,其中有12000名科学家,这超过以色列从1947年独立以来所培养科学家的总和。
According to reports from Nature journalist Heim Wauzman from Jerusalem, the plan of the Israeli government to subsidize the research of former Soviet Union immigration scientists may become a victim of the new Israeli government's decision to tighten the budget. Some government lobbying to obtain such funding Israeli scientists revealed the news. The recent Israeli cabinet meeting rejected a proposal by the Ministry of Finance to finance a plan to support immigrant scientists working in universities and private-sector research institutes. However, it stipulates that any expansion of funding for these programs can only come from the existing budget of the “Ministry of Absorption”, which is responsible for housing Soviet immigrants. The Cabinet meeting also decided to establish a committee to determine whether the current and proposed plans for creating scientific jobs are “essential” and “worthwhile”. A spokesman for the department said the above-mentioned decision of the cabinet meeting was a “victory,” as it still retained $ 1 million in job subsidies approved by the former Labor government prior to the election. But the reaction of Israeli scientists who support job-subsidies for former Soviet-emigrated scientists is confusion and anger. Because they learned that the government's budget cuts mean they have no money to finance the programs. Nathan Pastra, an assistant professor of anatomy at Hadad University Medical School in Hebron, Jerusalem, said “immigrant scientists are now worried.” Over 500,000 former Soviet inhabitants had relocated Israel from the early 1990s to now, including 12,000 scientists, more than the sum of Israel's scientists trained since its independence in 1947.