A grove of 10,000 trees will be planted near Gaza in memory of the late Prime Minister Harold Holt of Australia, who drowned last month, it was announced today by Asher Joel, national president of the Anzac Memorial and Forest Committee in Israel, of which the Prime Minister was a patron.
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