World Zionist Organization Executive chairman Leon Dulzin met with an Egyptian Hebraicist during his trip to Cairo last week when he accompanied Premier Menachem Begin, and was told that some 200 students are studying Hebrew in Shemesh University in Cairo, the Jewish Agency reported. The Egyptian professor, speaking in flawless Hebrew, told Dulzin that with the coming of peace he hoped the number of those interested in studying Hebrew would increase.
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