More than 12, 000 people jammed into Wembley Stadium here last night for a great torchlight pageant celebrating Israel’s tenth anniversary. The eventful decade of Israel’s history was presented in a series of colorful tableaux in which 800 members of Zionist youth groups participated. In Capetown, a similar program drew 9, 000 people.
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