These two newsreels produced by Geva Films Limited looks at newsworthy events in Israel for July 1957 and May 1958. The first newsreel covers the visit of a delegation from Ghana, the memorial for shot down El Al Flight 402, a home and garden exhibition, visits to a Kibbutz, and the training of naval cadets in Acre. The second newsreel covers tree-planting ceremonies, development projects in Arab villages, the opening of a new campus for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Shavuot Festival celebrations. Both reels feature high profile political figures from Israel including Prime Minister Ben Gurion, President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Chief of General Staff Moshe Dayan, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, and Minister of Finance Levi Eshkol.

0:06 Israel Geva News Magazine, Events of the Month, 0:20 a TWA Super Constellation landing with Ghanaian officials exiting, 0:38 Ghanaian officials meeting President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 0:54 Ben Gurion talking with the officials, 1:07 Moshe Dayan, 1:23 visit to a soap factory, 1:45 visit to an irrigation pipe factory, 1:57 test drilling at an oil field, 2:28 greeting of the Philippines ambassador to Israel and meeting Ben-Zvi and Golda Meir, 2:49 Governor Albert Chandler presenting Gurion with a gift, 3:02 memorial service for El Al Flight 402, 3:29 French delegation headed by Jacques Soustelle observing a procession by IDF Cadets, 4:02 Gurion and Ben-Zvi opening the world congress on Jewish studies, 4:15 archeological excavations at the site of the city of Gath, 4:36 electric lines being installed in the city of Tira with an accompanying ceremony, 5:16 a home and garden exhibition displaying different products such as wine, furniture, kitchen appliances, looms, handicrafts, and radio sets, 6:50 a new highway being opening south of Tel Aviv, 7:06 people at a beach, 7:26 an overview of new homes in an agricultural Kibbutz, 7:56 Minister of Labor Mordechai Namir and Minister of Finance Levi Eshkol greeting new settlers, 8:25 interior of a new Kibbutz house, 8:54 a woman starting her first day working in a factory producing canned food, 9:24 men installing irrigation pipes on a farm, 9:57 a Kibbutz reading room, 10:11 children eating food in a cafeteria and being read stories in Hebrew, 10:34 children playing outside, 11:16 the cityscape of Acre, 11:33 naval cadets training in a rowboat, 11:50 military drills on land and at sea, 12:20 two ships sailing next to each other, 12:32 a mock air attack on the ships with anti-aircraft and torpedo fire, 12:58 practice abandoning a ship and the INS Yaffo K-42 comes to the rescue 13:56 end of Reel one 14:16 visitors to Israel’s Tenth Anniversary Celebrations, 14:23 Isaac Wolfson stepping off a plane, 14:39 new Supreme Rabbinical Center in Jerusalem from the inside and outside, 15:17 Former PM of Japan Hitoshi Ashida and Golda Meir, 15:26 delegation from Finland congratulating Ben-Zvi, 15:41 Ambassador of Columbia Dr. Franco Ortega presenting his credentials, 15:26 a group of South African folk dancers dancing in Tel Aviv, 16:48 a homage to Blanche Dugdale in the Balfour Forest, 17:30 British Ambassador Sir Francis Rundle and Golda Meir at the planting of the Jewish National Fund Independence Forest, 17:43 French Ambassador Pierre Gilbert planting a tree in a forest named after him, 18:07 a conference of Arab women, 18:23 the renovation of mosques in Haifa and Jaffa, 19:15 the brining of electricity and a new health center to an Arab Village, 20:03 a folk dance in honor of the new clinic, 20:42 Bedouin ‘Fantasia’ camel race, 21:30 new campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 23:07 students working in a laboratory, 23:42 Writer Shai Agnon, Dr. Selman Waksman, and President Ben-Zvi receiving honorary doctorates, 24:02 Opening of the Center of Nuclear Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science with Ben Gurion and Robert Oppenheimer giving speeches, 24:37 Ben-Zvi visiting the Ramat Hadassah Youth Village and the inauguration of a new synagogue, 25:22 a party of young immigrant children at the President’s house, 25:51 young people celebrating the festival of Shavuot with a performance, 26:56 a cooperative farm settlement in Magen, 27:07 a party to celebrate the settlement’s tenth anniversary, 27:48 The End

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