Three thousand Palestine Jewish athletes with a sprinkling of prominent Jewish athletes from abroad are expected to participate in a three-day festival organized by the Maccabi, Jewish world-wide sports organization, which will begin April 17. Judith Deutsch and Ruth Langer, young Austrian swimming stars, and Gerda Gottlieb, Austrian pentathlon champion, are expected to take part.
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