Listeners of a French radio station voted former Israeli Premier Menachem Begin “Man of the Year” for 1983. Several thousand listeners took part in the poll conducted by Radio Community, which is operated by the French Jewish Welfare Fund in Paris. The poll showed that more than two-thirds of the participants supported Begin. Others in the running were President Francis Mitterrand and Simone Veil, the former President of the European Parliament.
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