Mrs. Golda Meir told departing members of an American Histadrut study mission here today that they must work for closer ties between Jews abroad and Israel and especially for the immigration to Israel of Jews from the Western countries. Addressing a farewell banquet in honor of the Histadrut group, she declared that “it would be a tragedy for the Jewish nation if, in this generation of redemption and independence, the assimilation of diaspora Jewry were to increase.” Mrs. Meir, who was once Israel’s Foreign Minister, was awarded a special scroll by the Histadrut campaign leaders in recognition of her work for the State of Israel and Histadrut. Aharon Becker, secretary general of Histadrut, told the gathering that the achievements of Histadrut were not for Israelis alone but “for the Jewish nation as such throughout the world.”
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