Representatives of the Canadian Jewish community presented Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau with a 16-volume set of the newly published “Encyclopedia Judaica” at the Prime Minister’s office here today. Trudeau is the third world figure to receive this specially prepared, leather-bound edition as a gift from Israel and the encyclopedia’s publishers in Jerusalem, The other two leaders have been Pope Paul VI and President Nixon, who received theirs earlier this year.
Alan Bronfman, national president of the Friends of the Hebrew University and Saul Hayes, executive vice president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, were present at the ceremony. The Bronfman family, through grants from the Bronfman Foundation, has supported the encyclopedia during its critical periods of compilation.
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