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“You will have to ask the permission of President Sadat to take this book with you,” Clement R. Setton, president of the Jewish community of Alexandria said to Premier Menachem Begin as he handed him an old Torah, property of the Eliahu Hanavi Synagogue here. Setton was serious. The Torah, which he gave as a […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315