Ambassador Yosef Tekoah reaffirmed Israel’s determination to “remain standing” against the “implacable enemy” in an address Saturday night at the 38th annual Histadrut Third Seder. “Arab aggression against Israel has become the longest war of this century anywhere,” he asserted, adding that behind the Arabs “stands the Soviet Union, unswerving in its support of Arab belligerency.” “At times,” he continued, “we feel as if we were standing under an avalanche of rocks, rocks, hurling against us from all directions, beating, wounding, bleeding us. Yet we remain standing. We must remain standing. If we bend, if we turn away we shall all be crushed. We have no intention to be crushed. The four-hour service–attended by 2,000 guests who also marked the 50th anniversary of Histadrut, the National Committee for Labor Israel–derived from a “Voice of Jubilee Haggadah,” comprising traditional and contemporary passages on Zionism, Independence and Judaism in general, presented in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Music was by the Zamir Chorale, with soloists Shoshana Damari and Sidor Belarsky.
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