Menahem Beigin, leader of the Herut party, and Shmuel Tamir, a leading Israeli attorney, will return to Israel tomorrow after a special flight to the United States to attend the funeral of playwright Ben Hecht.
The funeral services were held at Temple Rodeph Shalom here, with Rabbi Louis I. Newman officiating. Also present at the services was Peter Bergson, former chairman of the now defunct Hebrew Committee for National Liberation. Mr. Hecht, a supporter of the pre-state underground Irgun Zvai Leumi, was buried in Oak Hills cemetery in Nyack, N.Y., yesterday, near the grave of his old collaborator, Charles MacArthur. Mr. Beigin and Mr. Tamir spoke of Mr. Hecht’s “passionate support” of the cause of Israel.
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