The President of France and Israel will jointly inaugu rate the “Land of Israel” exhibition here next June. The exhibition will retrace 3,000 years of Jewish history “from dream to reality and from the Bible to our own days.” The exhibition is being organized by a special international committee and will be held in Paris’ prestigious Grand Palais generally reserved years in advance for international exhibitions. The Dead Sea Scrolls as well as thousands of other archaeological finds, pictures, books and manuscripts will be gathered from museums the world over for the occasion. The exhibition’s commissioners, Iona Fisher for Israel and Solange de Turenne for France, said yesterday that dozens of cities and museums have already investigated the possibilities of housing the exhibition.
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