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May 27, 1966 - Image 20

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1966-05-27

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The Detroit Jewish Community is proud to
welcome The Honorable Teddy Kollek, Mayor
of Jerusalem.

Teddy Kollek, who last year won a great
personal victory and four historic years as the
new Mayor of Jerusalem, served as the Director
General of the Prime Minister's office from 1952-
1964, a period that spanned many grave crises
and great decisions during the administrations
of David Ben-Gurion, the late Moshe Sharett
and the present Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol. In
1964 he was named Chairman of the Board of
the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

A frequent and well-known visitor to the
United States, Mr. Kollek, has, in a long and
distinguished career, served Israel as an Army

NORMAN ALLAN
LOUIS BERRY
ABRAHAM BORMAN
TOM BORMAN

20—Friday, May 27, 1966

officer, diplomat, head of the Israel Supply
Mission, Chairman of the Israel Tourist Cor-
poration and Chairman of the Joint Israel-
American Sea Water Desalination Project.

In 1940 he joined the Political Departmero-
of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem as liaiso
officer, with British forces in the Middle East.
In 1942-43 he served in Turkey, where he orga-
nized the Jewish Agency's office for contact with
the Jewish Underground in Europe.

Mr. Kollek went to London for the Jewish
Agency in 1946, and in November, 1947 was as-
signed to the Jewish Agency office in New York.
During Israel's War of Independence he orga-
nized a supply mission in the United States to
secure shipment of essential requirements to Is-

MORRIS J. BRANDWINE
IRWIN I. COHN
NORMAN COTTLER
SOL EISENBERG

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

MAX M. FISHER
DAVID GOLDBERG
IRWIN GREEN
CHARLES GROSBERG

JOSEPH HOI
MORRIS KA,
ABE KASLE
DANIEL UV'

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