Premier Menachem Begin of Israel will be the keynote speaker at a gala dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Nov. 11 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Begin’s mentor. About 1800 guests from throughout the United States are expected to attend, it was announced Tuesday by the. Jabotinsky Foundation, sponsors of the dinner. The list of Israeli patrons include Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Berman; Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir; Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren; Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef; chairman of the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency Executives, Leon Dulzin and. Poet Laureate of Israel Uri Zvi Greenberg.
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