Interior Minister Yosef Burg, head of the Israeli autonomy negotiating team. returned from the latest round of talks in Alexandria last week with a special gift for Premier Menachem Begin — an ancient scroll from Alexandria’s once-flourishing Jewish community that President Anwar Sadat promised Begin when the Israeli leader visited Alexandria earlier this year. Sadat granted his personal permission for transfer of the scroll, a national treasure, to Israel.
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