The Dominican-Israeli Cultural Institute was inaugurated here with the participation of the President of the Republic, government ministers and the Diplomatic Corps. In his address, the President, Dr. Donald Reid Cabral, referred to his visit to Israel of 1963.
“Ours was not a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he said, “we wanted to see the modern State of Israel. We were attracted by its small size. The success stories of the great nations are frequently a consequence of their vastness. We wanted to visit the country which among the small nations has a reputation of being the most advanced.” He praised the work done by Israeli experts in the reclamation of the Azua region.
Israel Ambassador Beniamin Varon paid tribute to the vice-president of the Institute, Dr. Max Henriquez Urena, who as Dominican ambassador had voted for the partition resolution in 1947, and the Institute’s president, Dr. Enrique Marchena, who as Dominican Ambassador to the United Nations, was among the very few who did not vote in favor of the resolution demanding that Israel withdraw its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.
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