The World Maccabi Union announced at a conferees that the first international athletic competition sponsored by the organization will be held in Israel in September, 1950, a Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam report##. Delegates from ten European countries and Israel attended the Amsterdam meeting, the report added.
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