The 800th anniversary of the arrival in Palestine of Yehuda Halevi, the great Hebrew poet, was celebrated here today in ceremonies in the ancient synagogue of Johanan Ben Zakkai in the old city. M. M. Ussishkin presided.
The speakers included the Sephardic Chief Rabbi Uziel, Mr. Isaac Ben-Zvi, President of the Jewish National Council, Dr. Isaac Gruenbaum, member of the Zionist Executive, Professor Joseph Klausner, and the Hebrew poets Dr. Saul Chernichovsky and Jacob Kahn.
The ceremony concluded with a crowd marching to the Wailing Wall, which is believed to be the spot where Yehuda Halevi was killed. Halevi’s poem “My Heart is in the East” was recited by the assemblage.
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