NEAR EAST INTERNATIONAL FAIR OPENS IN ISRAEL.

Record ID: 399453

  • Title: NEAR EAST INTERNATIONAL FAIR OPENS IN ISRAEL.
  • Date: 7th June 1962
  • Summary: 1. LV FLAGS FLYING AT MASTS. 0.04 2. CU ISRAELI FLAG 1962. 0.07 3. TV FROM CABLE CAR ABOVE EXHIBITION. 0.12 4. GV PAVILION. 0.16 5. CU JEWISH STAMP. 0.19 6. GV U.S.A. PAVILION. 0.22 7. SV POLISH EXHIBITION PAN TO SIGN "BRAZIL". 0.25 8. CU SWEDEN EXHIBITION SIGN. 0.27 9. LV JAPANESE MOTOR CAR STAND. 0.
  • Embargoed: 22nd June 1962 13:00
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  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA52GF7ZALUK9BY08817RJL0N6W
  • Story Text: AN EXHIBITION BY 32 COUNTRIES, THE NEAR EAST INTERNATIONAL FAIR, SPRANG INTO LIFE AS A SWITCH WAS CEREMONIALLY THROWN BY PRESIDENT BEN ZUI IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, ON JUNE 6TH.

    ONE BY ONE THE FLAGS OF THE EXHIBITING NATIONS, THE IDENTIFY OF WHICH HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN KEPT SECRET, WERE UNFURLED AROUND THE ENTRANCE TO THE GROUNDS. THEN THE LIGHTS WERE SWITCHED,ON, AND A DAZZLING FIREWORK DISPLAY BLOSSOMED IN THE EVENING SKY.

    THE FAIR IS THE EIGHT TO BE HELD IN ISRAEL, ???, BUT THE FIRST PLANNED AS AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT AND LAID OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS. TWO YEARS' PLANNING AND BUILDING LAY BEHIND THE GIANT FAIR GROUND. APART FROM THE STALLS OF THE 800 EXHIBITORS, IT INCLUDES LANDSCAPE GARDENS, AN OVERHEAD CABLE RAILWAY, AND A GIANT FUN PARK.

    A SPECIAL ISRAELI STAMP HAS BEEN ISSUED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FAIR'S OPENING.
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