A warm friend of Israel was elected President of Uruguay, another was elected to the Federal Senate, and a young Jewish medical student was chosen to membership of this city’s Municipal Council, in yesterday’s national and local elections, tabulated here today.
Daniel Fernandez Crespo, who will be 1963 President of the Uruguayan Republic under this country’s “collegiate system,” visited Israel last summer and lauded Israel’s achieve meats here after his return. He was formerly Mayor of Montevideo.
One of the newly elected Senators is Adolfo Tejera, prominent as an anti-Nazi. He has also visited Israel in the past, publishing a book with highly favorable impressions of the Jewish State. The local Jew chosen to the Municipal Council is Daniel Orzuch, 24, a medical student at the University of Montevideo. His father is the publisher of a Yiddish newspaper here, the Daily Folksblatt.
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