President Zalmam Shazar today established a fund of 100,000 pounds ($33,000) to finance visits to Israel by Jewish scholars and writers abroad. The Central Committee of the Histadrut, Israel’s labor federation, has contributed 10,000 pounds ($3,300) to the fund.
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