The 27th national convention of the Mizrachi ### of America will open here during the week-end. It will con### 12 with the presentation of the American-Israel Friendship Award to ### of the Department of Trusteeship of the United Nation ### about the Arab-Israeli armistice.
### is the ### American to be so honored since the establishment of ### recipients of the award have been Dr. James G. McDonald, ### U.S. ### to Israel, and General John Hilldring, who supervised dis### in Europe following World War II. President Trunam was ### in 1950, with a forest of 50,000 trees in Israel named in his honor in lien###.
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