A 62-member delegation from the American Histadrut campaign, the largest to visit Israel yet, was received by President Itzhak Ben Zvi and later met with Premier David Ben Gurion and Speaker of the Knesset Joseph Sprinzak. The Americans, headed by Isaac Hamlin, will spend three weeks in the Jewish State.
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