Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of the Knesset, today assumed the post of Acting President of Israel during the absence of President Chaim Weizmann, who is now in Switzerland.
A group of 430 Jewish immigrants, most of them form Czechoslovakia, arrived in Haifa today aboard the Rumanian vessel, S.S. Transylvania. The ship sailed from a Rumanian port.
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