After seven years idleness the port of Tel Aviv reopened today with the departure of a shipment of citrus fruits for England. In a brief ceremony marking the formal resumption of commerce, Mayor Israel Rokach expressed the hope that all foreign Jews who come to Palestine will enter via Tel Aviv.
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