After spending three days in Chile where he was received with national honors by the leaders of the Chilean Government and lionized by the members of the Jewish community of the capital city, Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett today returned to Argentina where he will remain for a day before continuing his South American goodwill tour.
Last night at a farewell banquet to Mr. Sharett, the United Israel Campaign of Chile was launched. Campaign leaders unanimously adopted a pledge to increase Chilean Jewry’s contribution by 40 percent this year. A number of large Contributions were made at the banquet.
Earlier, Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who is on a goodwill tour, paid a call on President Ibanez and expressed Israeli gratitude for Chile’s support in the United Nations. Later, Mr. Sharett and Foreign Minister Oscar Fenner signed an Israel-Chilean cultural treaty, Israel’s first such agreement with a nation in the Western Hemisphere.
The Israel leader, addressing a gathering of 2,000 persons in the Municipal Theatre here, declared: “I came here to tell you about the miracle of the rebirth of Israel and I have found perhaps a greater miracle–the miracle of the survival of the Jewish people.”
Mr. Sharett presented President Ibanez with a gift from President Itzhak Ben Zvi of Israel, a porcelain jug unearthed in excavations near Jerusalem dating to the second century, G. E.
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