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Speaker of Knesset Assumes Acting Presidency of Israel; 430 Immigrants Arrive in Haifa

July 21, 1949
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Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of the Knesset, today assumed the post of Acting President of Israel during the absence of President Chaim Weizmann, who is now in Switzerland.

A group of 430 Jewish immigrants, most of them form Czechoslovakia, arrived in Haifa today aboard the Rumanian vessel, S.S. Transylvania. The ship sailed from a Rumanian port.

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