Prime Minister Golda Meir addressed Arab women as mother-to-mother here yesterday. Mrs. Meir spoke at the seventh convention of Hashomer Hatzair, a labor Zionist youth movement, affiliated with Mapam. She said she believed that Arab mothers, in their isolated villages across the borders, have the same prayer as Israeli mothers: “peace for their children and the entire region.”
Mrs. Meir told her audience of some 5,000 youth representatives from Israeli cities, towns and kibbutzim that she hoped hundreds of thousands of Jewish youngsters, now behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Russia, would one day be able to join in the building of Israel. The Hashomer Hatzair conference will last three days and will deal with problems of Zionism, socialism and Mapam’s place in the world socialist movement.
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