United States Ambassador Edward B. Lawson was presented with a parchment scroll this week-end as the climax of a Fourth of July celebration at ZOA House here which was attended by 2,000 tourists and Israelis. Ambassador Lawson was honored for “strengthening the friendship (of the United States) with Israel.”
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