Seven hundred Jews entrained for Palestine today, the majority of them emigrants who will make the Holy Land their permanent home. Included in the group were 57 delegates to the first World Congress of Jewish Physicians, to be held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv April 21 to 24. Also among those who took train were tourists making a Passover pilgrimage to Palestine.
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