 With the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he joined the Department of Preventive Medicine.In 1927 Israel Jacob Kligler founded the "Malaria Research Station" of the Hebrew University in Rosh Pina, where pioneering field work was carried out relating to the eradication of malaria.Two years later he appointed Dr. Gideon Mer as the station manager and together they published a series of articles on malaria.