Former Knesset member Ze’ev “Benny” Begin will be a visiting lecturer at New York University next fall, an Israeli newspaper reported Wednesday. The Israeli daily Ha’aretz said Begin, a geologist by training, will lecture on the First Temple period. Begin, who dropped out of the prime minister’s race on the eve of the May elections, retired from political life soon after the vote.
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