More than 5,000 former members of the Irgun, clad in uniforms of the Revisionist Youth Organization, as well as members of the Herut Party from all parts of Israel, today participated in a parade in Maccabi Stadium here commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the Zionist Revisionist movement.
Present in the reviewing stand were Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv and a number of Herut members of the Israel Parliament. A symbolic grave was unveiled by Jabotinsky’s sister. At the same time, it was announced that flowers from all corners of Israel as well as earth collected from the graves of Revisionist soldiers who fell in Israel’s war of liberation will be flown to the United States to be laid on Jabotinsky’s grave at Long Island, N.Y., as a “token of eternal admiration and loyalty.”
(The 10th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Jabotinsky was quietly observed in New York at the headquarters of the executive of the Zionist Revisionist Party of America. A procession to his grave in Long Island will take place next Sunday.)
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