Meyer W. Weisgal, Premier David Ben Gurion’s special representative for Israel’s Tenth Anniversary Festival, arrived here today from Jerusalem to extend an official invitation to all religious groups in the United States to participate in the Tenth Anniversary celebration of the State of Israel.
Mr. Weisgal, who is the head of the Weizmann Institute of Science, has been asked by Premier Ben Gurion to coordinate and organize the anniversary events inside and outside Israel. The anniversary in Israel will be celebrated for one full year beginning April 24, 1958.
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