Hopes for the speedy establishment of a firm and friendly basis of relationship between Britain and Israel were expressed last night by the Lord Chief Justice of Britain and other speakers at a dinner in honor of Dr. Hordecai Eliash. Israeli Minister to London, tendered by the law section of the Friends of the Hebrew University.
More than 200 prominent Jurists were present at the function, including Lord Samuel, first High Commissioner of Palestine under the British Mandate, Lord Reading, Sir William Fitzgerald, last Chief Justice of Palestine under the British administration, and Norman Bentwich, first attorney-general of Palestine. Dr. Eliash described plans for the law faculty at the Hebrew University which, he said, would “wed the glory of the past with the necessity of the present by merging ancient Hebrew law with elements of modern, particularly English, law.”
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