The wife of the new Egyptian Foreign Minister, Pierre Boutros-Ghalli, comes from a traditional Jewish family and still remembers some of the Hebrew she learned in her childhood. Born Lea Nadler, she is the daughter of a prosperous Jewish industrialist, who was active until his death in Jewish communal affairs. Mrs. Boutros-Ghalli and her brothers belonged to Jewish youth movements and learned Hebrew in their youth. Her mother and brothers now live in New York City.
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