Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and Major General Haim Laskov, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Army, will address the 74th National Convention of the Zionist Organization of America next month in Pittsburgh. Ford, a prominent Administration spokesman, will deal with the Middle East and Soviet Jewry. Other speakers that evening will include Jacques Torczyner, past president of the ZOA, and Dr. Mikhail Zand, the noted Soviet Jewish scholar who recently immigrated to Israel. More than 1,000 delegates from ZOA Regions and Districts throughout the country are expected to attend the four-day Convention opening Sept. 2. Laskov, considered one of Israel’s outstanding military heroes, was Chief of Staff of Israel’s Defense Forces from 1958 to 1961. He was a battalion commander of the Jewish Brigade in World War II, and an armored commander who, during Israel’s War of Liberation, led forces which cleared the road to the besieged city of Jerusalem in March 1948. He also served as chief of the Army’s Training Command, commander of the Air Force and the Armored Corps and as commander of the Northern Armored Command during the Sinai campaign.
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