Rabbi Judah L. Maimon, Minister of Religions in the Israel Cabinet, arrived at the International Airport at Idlewild today to begin a four-week nationwide speaking tour under the auspices of the Mizrachi Organization of America.
The 75-year-old Minister, who is leader of the Religious Bloc in the coalition government of Israel, said that he had accepted the invitation of the Mizrachi Organization to come to the United States because he felt that there “is a need to report to the American Jewish community on the spiritual aspect of life in Israel,” and to urge its increased economic and financial support of the Jewish state. He also declared that he expects to explain how peoples of all faiths live and work together harmoniously in Israel.
“I will discuss these matters at greater length later on during my stay here,” the scholar-statesman asserted, “but for the present I want to make as clear as my powers permit the fact that every Jewish man and woman in Israel is grateful to the great American people and to their wonderful leader, President Truman, under whose leadership they provided the held and support which enabled our state to emerge from its infancy and become independent. We will never forget President Truman for his humanitarian concern over our development nor the American people for their rallying to our aid in our most difficult moments.”
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