Avraham Harman, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Presented the Israel Freedom Medal to the Hoffberger Family of Baltimore at a dinner in honor of the family, it was reported here today by the Israel Bond Organization. More than $500,000 in Israel bonds were sold at the Baltimore dinner. Some 650 men and women attended the event at which Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin of Baltimore presented the Hoffbergers with a certificate for “exemplary service.” Charles H. Hoffberger accepted the Israel medal on behalf of the family.
Gov. Otto Kerner of Illinois was honored as Chicago’s “Man of the Year” this week at another Israel bond dinner at which 4,000 persons marked the climax of Chicago Jewry’s most successful bond campaign. Israel Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, and R. Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity, were principal speakers at the dinner, a key event in the campaign to sell $7,500,000 in bonds in Chicago this year.
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