A ceremony was held in the Congress Hall in Basel Monday to mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish National Fund in the same hall where the first World Zionist Congress was held in 1897. Israel’s Ambassador to Switzerland. Jaakov Shimoni said that the appeal of the return to the land still exists in Israel, though it has lost part of its strength due to modern technology.
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