Sir William Aston, Speaker of the Australian Parliament, was welcomed to the Knesset today by Speaker Reuben Barkatt who hailed him as “a friend of Israel coming from a friendly country which has recently again proved its good will by speaking out for the persecuted Jews in the Soviet Union.” President Zalman Shazar also attended the Knesset meeting.
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