Dr. Emolides Aranha, son of the late Brazilian statesman Oswaldo Aranha, handed over to Israel this weekend two historic items used by his father in the historic United Nations vote to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Dr. Oswaldo Aranha was President of the Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly at which the partition recommendation was approved on November 29, 1947.
The items were the gavel he used and the voting list he prepared for the vote. The items were presented to the Brazilian cultural center at Bror Hayil named after the late statesman. They were placed in glass cases at the settlement for permanent display. Foreign Minister Abba Eban attended the ceremony. He hailed Israeli-Brazilian cooperation and expressed the hope that those ties would be expanded and strengthened.
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