Premier Menachem Begin has consented that a school be named in his honor at the new Yeshiva University of Los Angeles, it was announced here by William Belzberg and Ronald E. Arnall of Beverly Hills, co-chairmen of the university’s west coast campus. A delegation of communal leaders from the U.S. and Canada met with Begin this week to present him with the formal resolution naming the school in his honor. Begin will visit the university the first week of May to open and formally dedicate the school.
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