Col. Chaim Herzog, commander of the Jerusalem Military District for the Israel Defense Forces and former military attache of the Israel Embassy in Washington, arrived here today to help the United Jewish Appeal inaugurate the second half of its 1956 nationwide campaign.
Col. Herzog will speak this Saturday evening at the opening session of a two-day UJA National Action Conference in the Roosevelt Hotel. His address will be the first in this country by a leading Israel Army officer since the signing of the recent UN-sponsored cease-fire. The Colonel a son of Israel’s Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, served as military aide to Israel’s first President, the late Dr. Chaim Weizmann.
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