Three prominent British Jews on the Queen’s New Year Honors List will be knighted and three other British and Commonwealth Jews are to be made Commanders of the British Empire which carries no title. Knighthood will be conferred on Alfred Jules Ayer, a professor of logic at Oxford who becomes Sir Alfred Ayer; Philip Jack Oppenheimer, managing director of the diamond syndicate who becomes Sir Philip Oppenheimer and Rudy Sternberg, of the Export Council who will be knighted Sir Rudolph Sternberg. The CBE will be awarded to William Frankel, editor of the London Jewish Chronicle; J.E. Marks, a Canadian industrialist and L. Kadoorie, an industrialist from Hong Kong.
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