President Zalman Shazar received today a cable from eight Vilna Jews expressing “best wishes to the Jewish people for a happy festival of exodus for every one of us equally.” The cable was signed by Leopold Latzman, Rachel Rabinovitz, Boris Gutman, Jacob Feitelson, Meir Gefen, Zalman Zhelinsky, Leonard Schravkov and Elena Levin.
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