October 02, 1948
ON THIS your first New Year's Eve as President of the Provisional Council of the State of Israel I send you warm personal greetings and congratulations. May the New Year bring peace to Israel and to its citizens the opportunity to dedicate themselves in tranquillity to furthering the prosperity of their country.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
[His Excellency, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the Provisional Council of State, Tel Aviv]
Harry S Truman, Telegram to the President of Israel. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/233328