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Palestine Jewish Leaders Broadcast Greetings to Soviet Jewry

September 26, 1941
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M. M. Ussishkin, president of the Jewish National Fund and one of the founders of the Zionist movement in Czarist Russia, will be one of the principal speakers in the first broadcast from Palestine to the Jews of Soviet Russia which will take place here on Saturday.

Other leaders of Palestine Jewry who will speak over the radio to the Jews of Russia include Isaac Ben-Zvi, president of the Vaad Leumi, Berl Katznelson, editor of the Davar and leader of the Histadruth, and Dr. Saul Tchernichovsky, the noted Hebrew poet. They will convey to the Jews of Soviet Russia a message of encouragement which will be transmitted to London from where it will be relayed to Moscow over the BBC station.

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