The Soviet Ambassador to Israel, Alexander Abramov, presented Israel today with photostatic copies of ancient Hebrew books owned by the museum at Tiflis, capital of the Soviet Republic of Georgia. He presented the film to President Ben Zvi for the Ben Zvi Institute, which studies Eastern Jewish culture.
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