 In the beginning the faculty staff came mainly from the Agricultural Experiment Station and students worked on their theses in the laboratories of the Station.Michael Evenari (1904-1989, born as Walter Schwarz) was among the early pioneers.The British government also established a small agricultural research department with several stations in both Arab and Jewish areas.After 1948, with the establishment of the State of Israel, the two research stations were merged into the Agricultural Research Station within the Ministry of Agriculture.