Israel spent the first day of Passover in a heat wave unusually severe for this time of the year. Temperatures dropped for the second day and encouraged adults and children to flock into the streets of cities, towns and villages.
government announcement revealed today that President Itzhak Ben Zvi had conducted a seder at the Negev kibbutz of Saad. In Jerusalem, United States Ambassador Edward B. Lawson was a guest at a sder officiated over by Israel Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog. Another guest was Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Dr. Israel Brodie, who this morning preached a sermon in Jerusalem’s Yeshurun Synagogue.
An unusual seder was held under the wings of jet planes at the Air Force bast at Lydda. Officiating was Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Army Chief of Staff, and among the guests were high army officers and a number of French citizens currently in Israel. All army posts held public seders.
The Navy’s official seder was held aboard the destroyer Haifa, formerly the Egyptian warship Ibrahim el Awal, which was captured on the first day of the Sinal offensive when it attempted a hit-and-run shelling of the port of Haifa. in the port of Elath, Rabbi M. Goren, the army’s chief chaplain, held services aboard a corvette.
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