Former Premier David Ben-Gurion has accepted an invitation to visit the United States next February, to open the first conference of the American-Israel Bible Society in Chicago, it was disclosed here yesterday.
The visit, his first since 1961, when he met the late President John Kennedy and then conferred with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer when the latter visited the United States, will include a series of lectures under the auspices of the Bible society.
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