One of the biggest supporters here of Israel’s cause, singer Enrico Macias, said last night that the Egyptian Embassy had invited him to come to Egypt for a series of concerts. Macias, who has often been at the top of the French box office, told the French television that his impresario had been informed by the Egyptian Embassy that he would be welcomed in Egypt because peace with Israel was about to come.
The Embassy would not comment on the information. Macias’ impresario said the singer would refuse the invitation. Macias, born in Algeria, came to France with thousands of North African Jewish emigrants after Algerian independence in 1962. The singer, well-known among Israel’s Oriental and Asian population, flew to Tel Aviv to entertain Israeli troops during the Yom Kippur War.
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