A Yom Haatzmaut celebration sponsored by the Stockholm Zionist Federation and the Swedish-Israel Society was told by Chaim Yahil, Israel Ambassador, that a year of relative peace on Israel’s borders has proved that the Israel-Arab controversy was not the reason for the prevailing Middle East crisis.
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