Israel Ambassador Abba Eban tonight asserted that as result of Israel’s consolidation in the past ten years the absorption into Israel of the new influx of European Jews “is fully within Israel’s capacity, if these are augmented, as they should be, by the responsible solidarity of our fellow Jews abroad.”
Mr. Eban spoke before some 1, 200 persons, including leaders in all walks of Jewish life assembled at the 51st annual dinner of the Bnai Zicm, American fraternal zionist organization, held tonight in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in his honor. The dinner marked the dedication by the Bnai Zion of a forest in Israel named for Ambassador Eban.
Nathaniel S. Rothenberg, grandmaster of the Order, presented to the Ambassador a sterling tray together with a parchment certifying that a forest comprised of 30, 000 trees has been dedicated in the name of Ambassador Eban, located on Jewish National Fund land in the Adullam area between Jerusalem and Transjordan. Addresses of tribute were deliverer by Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council, Dr. Harris J. Levine, president of the JNF of America, Congressman Abraham Multer, and others.
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