ISRAEL LEADER VOICES THANKS TO AMERICANS FOR AIDING ISRAEL
An expression of gratitude on behalf of the Israel people to Americans of all faiths “who have helped us achieve our sovereignty and are hopefully looking forward to our success and maturity,” was voiced here today by Zalman Shazar, head of the Jewish Agency’s department of education and culture, in a radio address on the occasion of Israel’s sixth Independence Day.
Mr. Shazar, who asserted that he could not “predict a year of secure peace and of pause from strain,” for Israel, asserted that Israel would lean on the friendship of its well-wishers in all parts of the world and said he was confident that “American Jewry will assist Israel in the same unqualified determination as in the past.”
The Agency leader hit out sharply at “political obstructionists of all types, and a small minority of mean-hearted opponents within Jewry” who have “frequently attempted to deny the unity of the Jewish people and Eretz Israel. ” He called this denial “historically counterfeit, shockingly humiliating and gravely dangerous.”
The National Committee for Labor Israel tonight celebrated Israel Independence Day with a rally at the Hotel Capital. James G. Heller, president of the Labor Zionist Organization of America, speaking at the meeting, charged the State Department with “unclarity and misrepresentations” in reference to Israel, but asserted that despite these developments Israel has steadily grown stronger “in unity, self-defense and in progress towards economic self-support.”
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