In a letter to Haaretz, World Center-Jerusalem Director Alan Schneider writes about B’nai B’rith’s efforts in 1948 to reject U.N. trusteeship in what was then Palestine, and the crucial role played by B’nai B’rith’s Frank Goldman and Eddie Jacobson in bringing about the historic meeting between President Harry Truman and Chaim Weizmann to recognize the State of Israel.