Israel Minister of Posts, Dr. Joseph Burg, today opened the international stamp exhibit in honor of Israel’s Tenth Anniversary at the New York Trade Show Building. Dr. Burg is the official patron of the three-day exhibition, which will feature collections of eminent philatelists. The Minister arrived in New York last week to participate in the opening of the exhibition. He is currently en route back to Israel from a good-will mission to Australia and New Zealand.
In reviewing the postal and communications developments in the State during the past ten years, Dr. Burg pointed to the role played by the postal, telegraph and telephone services in the successful expansion of the country’s economy. He also stressed the importance of the country’s growing communication network in the development of the Negew and the Upper Galilee. A reliable communication system, the Minister stated, was one of the essentials for the country’s achievements in industry, agriculture and the expansion of the populated area into the undeveloped regions.
Dr. Burg described the functions of the Ministry’s Philatelic Service as forming the link with past history and commemorating the rebirth and life of Israel, by throwing into bold relief those events which constitute history in the making. “Since the State was founded ten years ago, the stamps of Israel have been showing the world the history of the country, its people, the spirit pervading it and the truths emanating from it as well as the dynamics of the ingathering of the exiles and the conquest of the desert,” Dr. Burg stated.
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