Greetings on behalf of the Israel Gov### offered here tonight at a meeting of American friends of the Bar-Ilan Un### at Hotel Astor in celebration of the cornerstone-laying in Israel for the ###university which is being sponsored by the Mizrachi Organization of Ame### greetings were delivered by David Gotein, Israeli Minister Plenipotentia### United States, and Avraham Harman, Israel’s Consul General in New York###.
Declaring that he brought “the greetings of the Government of Israel ###of Israel” to the gathering, Mr. Gotein said that it was a love of Jewish### the bonds of tradition which have kept the Jewish people alive throughout### tions and have made it possible for us to live to this day to set up a state### vigor, that determination of a people that has never forgotten its land.”
Paying tribute to the late Rabbi Meier Bar-Ilan, founder of the world### movement, for whom the University was named, Mr. Gotein offered the### that the University “named after a great-hearted Jew, who lived in Jeru### before the State, was already a citizen of Israel, would teach ever mor### truth, give us ever more understanding and a deeper love of our fellow###
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