The National Young Zionist Committee, representing thousands of young American. Zionists affiliated with the Zionist Organization of America, met in historic Independence Hall here to mark the fifth anniversary of Israel’s Independence Day. Assembled before the Liberty Bell, the delegates at the meeting saluted “the heroic youth of Israel for their spectacular achievements in the establishment and development of the Jewish State.”
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