More than 500 people attended Tuesday night the 46th annual memorial service for Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, at the Roosevelt Hotel here.
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, underscored the major role of Jabotinsky in the development of the Zionist movement which led to the establishment of the State of Israel.
Asserting that the loss of Jabotinsky to the Zionist movement “was equal to the loss of Herzl,” Netanyahu said that the people in Israel today are the keepers of Jabotinsky’s flame.
Former Premier Menachem Begin and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir sent special statements for the occasion, stressing Jabotinsky’s contribution to the establishment of the Jewish State.
Cantor Zvi Aroni read and sang from the poetry of Jabotinsky.
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