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Show HonorableEgyptians Aid Hebrew Friends The Israeli government has accepted ac-cepted an offer from the United Arab Republic to send Egyptian technicians into Israel to help divert the Jordan River. FORMAL PAPERS were signed at a testimonial dinner given in honor of the Israeli prime minister min-ister Levi Eshkol in Cairo. The heads of state of both countries toasted each other and praised the "millenia of good will and cooperation which have characterized charac-terized past relations between our two nations." Before the dinner, 100 visiting Israeli officials were awarded a rousing 21 -gun salute. The Israeli government expressed 'concern" later that evening that the salutees were blindfolded and stood against a wall. Only 79 returned from the salute. MEANWHILE, back in Jerusa lem, UAR officials accepted "with pleasure" an invitation extended to the Egyptian president presi-dent Gamal Abdul Nasser to visit Israel. Israeli Foreign Office officials announced that a special highway high-way across the Red Sea was being constructed to expedite the Egyptian president's visit. A SPECIAL commemoration depicting an historic event in ancient Arab-Israeli relations is planned midway through the president's Red Sea passage, it was announced in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, back In Cairo, UAR officials revealed details on the Israeli Jordan diversion project. While the exact diversion diver-sion route has not yet been announced, an-nounced, they assured reporters that it would "definitely go through downtown Tel Aviv." |