Extensive preparations are being made here for celebration in Washington of Israel’s tenth anniversary.
Members of Congress are expected to pay tribute to Israel in addresses to the floor of Congress on April 23. Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein has been invited by the Senate to recite the opening prayer. Rabbi Bernstein is chairman of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs. The House has invited Rabbi Israel Goldstein to offer a similar opening prayer.
Members of government and diplomatic corps have responded to the invitation of Ambassador Abba Eban for an anniversary reception on April 24 at Washington’s Shore-ham Hotel. The Israel Embassy will hold an all-day open house on April 27. New decorations and improvements have been made at the Embassy in anticipation of the festive year.
Israel will be honored on April 17 at a national dinner to be tendered here by the America-Israel Society. The Society will take note of cultural achievements of the first decade of Israel rebirth. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson, Ambassador Eban, and others will speak. Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland will preside.
In connection with the tenth anniversary, the America-Israel Society announced that more than two score American leaders including Cabinet officers, Senators, a Supreme Court Justice and others have written original essays on American historical events for presentation to the International Cultural Center for Youth in Jerusalem.
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