Israelis were delighted today to learn that one of their favorite American television stars. Jack Lord, is Jewish. At least so says Jewish Agency emissary Yehuda Kesten who recently visited Hawaii. The Island state is the locale of the popular cops-and-robbers series “Hawaii Five O” in which Lord plays the lead. The show is syndicated to Israeli television.
Kesten, who was in Hawaii to promote aliya among the state’s 3000 Jewish citizens, did not meet Lord and did not say how he learned the actor is Jewish. He said he obtained Lord’s unlisted phone number and would call him next time he Is in Hawaii to give him the message of aliya. Kesten said that he had addressed American Jewish servicemen at the Pearl Harbor base synagogue and that some had asked him how they could be of service to Israel after they retired from the U.S. Army.
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