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THE
WORLD COMES TO JERUSALEM
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The 1960`s were a decade of intense and friendly cooperation between Israel and the new African countries. Foreign Secretary Golda Meirwas deeply involved in this process andis here shown with President David Dako of the Central Afrikan Republic, visiting Jerusalem in June 1962. | |
In July 1962 President Felix Houphouet Boigny of the Ivory Coast came to Israel. He decorated President Ben-Zvi with the ceremonial order of his country. | |
President William Tubman of Liberia was a most welcome guest of President and Mrs. Ben-Zvi during the Liberian leader's official visit to Israel in June 1962. | |
At Jerusalem's Town Hall in October 1957, Mayor Gershon Agron received great musicians and friends, Isaac Stern and his wife, Vera (to the left of the Mayor), Leonard and Felicia Bernstein. | |
Mrs. Ben-Zvi receives as her honored guest, in 1960, Angelica Balabanova, a legendary figure in the Socialist International before World War I and in European Socialist parties thereafter. | |
Mayor Ish-Shalom of Jerusalem joins the public in enthusiastically welcoming Marlene Dietrich on her visit in June 1960. | |
Eleanor Roosevelt came to Israel in 1961 as World Patron of the Youth Aliya movement for the rehabilitation of children newly immigrated to Israel. She shared many an interest with Beba Idelson, leader of the Working Women's Organization in Israel. | |
The cellist Pablo Casals was one of the visiting musicians most loved and admired in Israel. He met in October 1961 with President and Mrs. Ben-Zvi. | |
President and Mrs. Ben-Zvi received Artur Rubinstein, the pianist, in 1962. | |
Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer, was welcomed and honored at Jerusalem's City Hall by Mayor Ish-Shalom on August 1, 1962. | |
The photographer is photographed: Mrs. Ross stands with Paul Newman, at the reception in May 1960, celebrating the filming of "Exodus" in which he starred. | |
Photographed by his wife, Eli Ross talks with Mrs. Ben-Zvi whom he so often photographed receiving official guests. | |
In September 1963 King Mahendra of Nepal and his Queen paid a State Visit to Israel. President Zalman Shazar who succeeded Mrs. Ben-Zvi in 1963, is here seen toasting his royal guest, in the presence of the Queen, Mrs. Shazar and Foreign Secretary Golda Meir. | |
Visiting Israel in February 1964, His Majesty King Baudouin of Belgium was received by President Shazar. | |
When the famous Soviet dance group, Berezka, appeared in Israel in January, 1964, the dancers were honored at a reception addressed by Foreign Secretary Golda Meir and attended by President Shazar and Soviet Ambassador Bodroff. The reception concluded with an enthusiastic "Hora" danced by the performers with Mrs. Meir in the center. | |
Mayor Teddy Kollek affixed the official Jerusalem pin to the jacket of Konstantin Simonov, the Russian poet and writer, visiting Israel in May 1966. | |
President and Mrs. Shazar received the famous pianist, Artur Rubinstein, and his wife on their visit to Israel in May, 1964 | |
The youthful Leonard Bernstein, pianist, conductor and composer, found much in common with President Shazar (January, 1964). | |
Walworth Barbour, the long-term, highly respected American Ambassador to Israel, discusses the state of affairs with President Shazar in spring 1965. | |
On United Nations Day in 1966 President Shazar greetsLt. Gen. Odd Bull, Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization for Palestine. | |
After the Six Day War of 1967 Danny Kaye, flew to Israel to entertain the troops. The photo shows him talking with a friend, Mayor Teddy Kollek. | |
On his visit to Israel in 1969, Axel Springer, the German publisher and public figure, stands in meditation at Yad Va-Shem, the Israel Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust. | |
Impressive tapestries by Mark Chagall hang in the building of Israel's Parliament, the Knesset. The artist himself came to the ceremony of their installation in 1969 and is seen here in lively conversation with Golda Meir. | |
President Shazar receives the famous cellist, Piatigorsky, in May 1970. | |
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