The Scroll of the Covenant that was carried in the Palestine campaign during the World War by the Jewish Legion, the regiments of American and British Jews who fought under Marshal Allenby, was presented yesterday to the Hebrew National Library of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus.
The presentation was made by Rabbi Salk, former chaplain of the legion, who arrived here from South Africa.
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