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President and Mrs. Chaim Weizmann, of Israel, on visit to Washington, DC.
A crowd waiting for Chaim Weizmann,first President of Irael. Men, women and children wave flags of State of Israel and several American flags. President and Mrs. Weizmann emerging from Union Station in Washington, accompanied by crowd of well wishers. A large American flag and a District of Columbia flag are carried in the crowd. A crowd of photographers await them on the sidewalk. District of Columbia representative formally welcomes the Weizmanns.They enter a 1948 Cadillac limousine, and drive away from Union Station, with a Secret Service agent riding on the right running board. Another car and motorcycle policeman move in front of them. Spectators wave Israeli flags. President Weizmann of Israel being assisted as he leaves White House and enters automobile. President Weizmann seated in a garden, conducts a news conference, surrounded by reporters and photographers.
Ceremony at Jewish Agency office in Washington DC, on occasion of United States recognition of Israel as an independent state.
Crowd gathered around 6:00pm on May 14, 1948, outside the Washington DC office of the Jewish Agency, at 2210 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC. View of happy, waving crowd from camera position in an upstairs window. View on building steps of dignitaries including Eliahu Elath (later the first Israeli Ambassador to the United States), Rabbi Novak of the Washington Mizrachi leaders, Sumner Welles, and New York Congressman Sol Bloom. View of a boy (Oren Zinder, son of Zvi and Honda Zinder) standing in the upstairs window, preparing to unfurl the flag of Israel in front of the building. View of the flag in position, and the crowd waving.
Tanks and troops transported by the Military Aircraft Command during Army Reforger 76 exercise in Europe.
A civilian narrator is speaking from the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Post, at Scott Air Force Base,Illinois. He mentions MAC missions supplying war materiel to Israel, in 1973, and the famous Berlin Airlift of 1948. Scene shifts to troops in military exercises, riding across fields in U.S. M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) and walking with their weapons and gear. An M60 Patton tank moves along a muddy road, past the camera. Troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne division stand in formation on a ramp next to a MAC C-141 transport aircraft. They are about to be airlifted to Europe, to participate in War games, in Germany. Some of their armor and trucks seen offloading at a destination airfield. Major John Gray, Jr. of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division is interviewed, standing in front of a C-141 aircraft from the MAC 62d Airlift Wing, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. UH-1 (Huey) helicopters deploying infantry in a field and moving away as the troops advance during an exercise. M113 APCs moving past the camera. MAC C-141s landing in Germany as they airlift the U.S. troops who participate in these exercises.Several C-141s taxiing on the airfield. A MAC C-5 Galaxy aircraft with its nose hatch open and armored vehicles that it carried, parked in front of it. Closeup of turret on an M60 medium main battle tank. View of the tank being loaded into a C-5 and view inside the aircraft as the tank is maneuvered in its cargo hold.
Jews flee to Israel; formation of Israel; Egyptian aircraft raid the town of Tel Aviv.
The state of Israel is formed. Refugee settlement tents in an area and people behind a barbed wire fence (possibly Jewish refugee camp in Cyprus where immigrants to Israel awaited political negotiations). A ship in a harbor. Jews board the ship. The Israeli flag hoisted aboard the ship. People get onto the ship. A man and a woman aboard the ship while it is underway towards Israel. Men load cargo onto a ship. Jews aboard a ship as they wave. Two men shake hands. Traffic on a street in a city in Israel. Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion arrives and enters a building. A flag of Israel on the top of a building. An Egyptian aircraft in flight over Tel Aviv. A damaged building after an air raid. Dead bodies of Israeli people in streets after a bombing. Soldiers find a cache of ammunition and hand grenades in crates. Also found is a Nazi German book with a swastika symbol. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on the observation deck of a watch tower of what appears to be a liberated prison or detention area. Israeli soldiers in formation on a street.
State of Israel formed amid violence.
State of Israel formed. Film opens with camera panning down the Abdul Hamid Clock Tower in Haifa, Israel. At the base it focuses on Haganah fighters laying out ammunition and explosives. Closeup of a case of hand grenades and many loose rifle cartridges. Shot of the clock tower from different viewpoint. Men gathering at its base. Damaged buildings near waterfront. Armed men scrambling down the pile of rubble near one building. Closeup of one carrying a Sten gun. Views of deserted arab neighborhood. A cat walking along deserted sidewalk.
Israeli troops in streets of Israel in middle of Arab-Israel war.
Men looking at the wreckage of a bombed out building during the Arab-Israeli war. Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF) with wreckage of Egyptian plane. Views of street. Unexploded bomb found. Egyptian insignia on wreckage of plane. Troops digging trenches. Military plane overhead. Soldiers with wreckage of plane. View of a captured tank. Israeli soldiers on a lookout tower. A damaged building. Wrecked military equipment. Military truck with Israeli 'Star of David' and medical corps insignia. Plane overhead. Body is carried out from a building as soldiers try to put out the fire. Israeli soldier near Egyptian plane on ground. Men keeping watch in a high watch tower.