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A Gift to United Nations from Goverment of Israel

15 January 1953

Ana Eban (center right), Permanent Representative or Israel to the United Nations, presents to Secretary-General Trygve Lie (center left), a slab of Israeli stone representing some 4000 square feet of such stone which has already arrived at U.N. Headquarters as Israel's gift to the United Nations. Members of the Israeli delegation are standing behind Mr. Eban; U.N. officials, behind Mr. Lie.
The stone was quarried from the hills of Judea and will be used somewhere in the landscaped area of the Headquarters or as a platform or base for a statue or some other work of art.

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