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May 17, 1948
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Many celebrations and services to mark the establishment of Israel were held in Vienna and other cities and in the DP camps this week### A special service was held by the Vienna Jewish Community on Saturday and the Zionist Federation sponsored a political rally today.

In the DP camps, there was little in the way of festivities, but speakers at all the rallies stressed that the time for celebration had not yet arrived. They plated out that the Arab invasion remained a great throat and expressed their willingness to go to Israel immediately to fight and, if need be, die for their new country A special pilgrimage will be made tomorrow to the grave of Theodor Herzl, under of political Zionism.

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