As chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
Abba Hillel Silver
testifies before the United Nations in November 1947.
At his right is Andrea Gromyko of the Soviet Union.
Seated behind him are Emanuel Neumann, Golda Meir and Moshe
Sharett.
Moments after the vote: Moshe Sharett, who
would soon become Israel's
first Foreign Minister, embraces
a jubilant Abba Hillel Silver. Photo Keystone
Source of photos: Therefore Choose Life: Selected Sermons, Addresses and Writings of Abba
Hillel Silver
World Publishing Company 1967