IMA Heads for Seminar

About 25 members of a newlyformed pro-Israel student group will go to Yale tomorrow for a political leadership training seminar.

The International Middle East Affairs Committee (IMA) was formed in response to student interest in U.S.-Israeli relations, said Amy E. Katz '88, committee's coordinator. "The Harvard community doesn't know enough about the history and strategic importance of Israel," she said.

"Many Harvard students will be working in government someday, and it's important for them to know the whole story," Katz said.

Not yet an officially chartered student group, the IMA is filing the forms necessary to gain College recognition, said Katz. She said that they hope to get a speaker for the spring and will attend this weekend's seminar.

Approximately 500 people are expected to attend the first Lower New England Political Training Seminar, a seminar on U.S.-Israeli relations and the American political process seminar, said Micah Halpern, student director of Jewish programs at Yale. Princeton, Brown, Penn, Tufts, Wesleyan, and N.Y.U. are among the schools sending delegates.