May 08, 1959 • Page Image 1
…We Salute Israel's 11th Anniversary Israel's friends note with pride the young State's growth in the eleven years of its existence. . . . Its Jewish population has trebled since 1948, the growth attesting to the freedom that has been earned there by more than 1,250,000 newcomers from lands of oppression. . . . The country's cultivated area has increased from 412,000 acres to 993,750 acres. . . . Irrigation has quadrupled and is now provided f...…