More than 2,300 guests, each paying $250 for the privilege of participating in a gathering to pay tribute to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, will cone together at the Waldorf-Astoria tomorrow evening to hear Dr. Weizmann’s first speech in this country since his election as the first President of Israel.
The gathering will include diplomatic representatives of practically every country in the world. All proceeds from the affair will go to the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Institute, located in Rehovoth, Israel, is engaged in agricultural, industrial and scientific research aimed at speeding Israel’s development.
In addition to Dr. Weizmann’s address, there will be short speeches by Dr# Herbert V. Evatt of Australia, president of the United Nations General Assembly; Henry Morgenthau, Jr., general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Edmund I. Kaufmann, president of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute; Dowey D. Stone of Brockton, Mass., chairman of the board of directors of the American Committee for the Institute; and Abraham Feinberg of New York, chairman of the dinner committee. A major portion of the evening will be devoted to a musical tribute to President Woizmann by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. Jascha Heifetz will be the guest soloist.
WEIZMANN TO CELEBRATE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ISRAEL AT N.Y. DINNER
President Weizmann will celebrate the first anniversary of Israel at a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, on May 4 it was announced today by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., general chairman of the U.J.A.
The celebration of the birthday of Israel’s independence will be in the form of a tribute by the President of Israel to officers of Jewish community campaigns throughout the United States who are engaged in the drive to raise $250,000,000 for the United” Jewish Appeal. Originally scheduled to leave the United States at the end of the month, Dr. Woizmann delayed his departure to May 5.
A mass demonstration at Madison Square Park in the afternoon and a concert-meeting at Carnegie Hall in the evening–both events scheduled for May 4–will highlight the official celebration by the American Zionist movement of Israel’s first anniversary of statehood, it was announced today by the American Zionist Emergency Council. Similar celebrations will be conducted on that day by most of the Council’s 400 committees located in every important city of the United States.
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