Two hundred Ford trucks, paid for from funds which Israel received in the Export-Import Bank loan, were shipped today to the Jewish state. Dr. Shaul Lipshitz, representative of the Ford Motor Company in Israel and former chairman of the Tel Aviv Chamber of Commerce, who is now in New York, said that this is the biggest single shipment of trucks Israel has ever received.
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