Mordecai Namir and Ehud Avriel, Israel’s Ministers to the Soviet Union and Hungary, respectively, sailed from here today aboard the S.S. Kedmah to resume their posts.
The two Israel envoys participated in the conference here of top Israel diplomats at which world issues affecting the Jewish state were reviewed and Israel’s international policy was mapped.
Eamon De Valera, former Prime Minister of Eire, left Israel by plane today. He said his six-day visit to the Jewish state had “corrected a lot of wrong notions I had about the nature of the country.”
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