The 48th annual convention of Bnai Zion, the Zionist fraternal order, will open here tomorrow with some 500 delegates from 16 states in attendance. The convention will launch a two-year golden jubilee celebration of the founding of the organization.
A principal speaker at the meeting will be Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, the U.S. Army’s Chief Historian of the European Theatre in World War II and of the Korean War. Gen. Marshall was in the Middle East during the recent Israeli Sinai campaign.
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