The week-long celebration in many cities in the United States of Israel’s seventh anniversary came to an end this week-end.
In Philadelphia, where Ambassador Abba Eban participated in a reception at City ### in honor of Israel’s independence, the Israel envoy was given the rare honor of ###ging the Liberty Bell. He read in Hebrew the passage from Leviticus which is inscribed on the bell. He also inspected an honor detachment of U.S. Marines.
In California, Israel Independence Week, proclaimed by Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, closed Similar weeks had been proclaimed in Los Angeles by Acting Mayor John S. Gibson and in San Francisco by Mayor Elmer Robinson. A mass meeting in Los Angeles Statler hotel marking Israel Independence Day drew 1,500 people. A reception was also held by Dr. Abraham Biran, consul general in Los Angeles.
Israel’s diplomatic representatives in 20 countries throughout the world participated in Celebrations of Independence Day arranged by the Jewish National Fund, according to a report rendered by Mendel N. Fisher, executive director, to the meeting of the board of directors of the JNF. The diplomatic officials also aided the JNF at functions designed to inscribe the heads of the State of Israel as well as important personalities who have been instrumental in the establishment and the building of the State of Israel, in a new ###ume of the “Golden Book,” called “Sefer Hamedinah.”
(The first trees in a wood planted by the Jewish National Fund in honor of Michigan Governor G Mennen Williams at the foot of Mount Carmel were planted this week by Gov Mennen. The wood also honors Lt. Gov. M. J. Hart. Trees were also planted by Herman Wouk the writer, and for Mr. and Mrs. Huckman Prince. Mr. Prince is president of Willys-Kaiser Frazier, which maintains an assembly plant in Haifa.)
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