The first Israeli passports were issued here today over the signature of Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, Passports numbers one and two were made out to Israeli President Pr. Chaim Weizmann and his wife while passport number three was stamped for Israeli envoy to Russia, Mrs. Golda Meirson.
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