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Sukkot Events at the Begin Center
As we have traditionally done during the extra Chol HaMoed days of Sukkot, the Begin Center will have extended hours to visit the Museum and special educational and cultural activities.
Sunday, October 19—Symposium: A full day colloquium from 10 o'clock in the morning until 5:30 in the afternoon, under the auspices of the Jerusalem Municipality 'Sha'arayich' initiative, devoted to the subject "In God We Trust" – Religion and State: The American Versus the Israel Model". Participants in the event include Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Prof. Yedidyah Stern, Dr. Micha Goodman, Prof. Avi Diskin, Dr. Ophir Ivri, Prof. Michael Rosenak and others. This event will be in Hebrew.
Sunday-Monday, October 19-20—All Night Learning: The eve of Hoshana Raba program will mark the opening of the fourth year of the Rohr Family Parshat haShavua weekly lectures. The four presenters will also be the lecturers who will give the weekly talks during the year, Dr. Iddo Chevroni, Dr. Shelly Goldberg, Dr. Micha Goodman and Yirmi Stavitzky. The Hoshana Raba program will begin at 9 PM and is also in Hebrew.
Thursday, October 23—Parshat haShavua, B'reisheet: The weekly Parshat HaShavua lectures, sponsored by the Rohr Family will renew as of Thursday evening, Oct. 23rd, at 7 PM. The book of B'reisheet will be dealt with by Dr. Iddo Chevroni, a member of the academic staff of the Mandel Leadership Institute, the Shalem Institute's Biblical Literature studies and of Herzog College. This event is in Hebrew.
Sunday, October 26—Book Launch: The book launch of the memoirs of Prof. Menachem Levin, a Jabotinsky Movement veteran, will be held beginning at 6:30 PM at the Begin Center. The speakers will include Herzl Makov, Center Chairman, Prof. Yaakov Shavit, Yossi Achimeir, Prof. Hillel Weiss, Prof. Moshe Arens. Prof. Levin will respond. The event will be conducted in Hebrew.
In the News: Memories of Begin
Yael Lotan, of Ha'aretz, wrote a reminiscence of her childhood in which Menachem Begin was mentioned. She relates his election as commander of the Irgun:
"When Begin arrived in Mandate Palestine, he was a veteran in the Beitar Movement, and it was only natural for him to be in contact with my father, Binyamin (Benno) Lubotsky, a central figure in the movement at the time.
The commander of the Etzel underground then was Yaakov Meridor, but he … wanted to step down. One night, the heads of the movement met at our house in order to choose whom to appoint in his place. … That night (in August 1942, according to my father's memoirs), they decided to appoint Menachem Begin as commander of Etzel, in place of Meridor. At the end of the meeting, my father accompanied the members as they left. Once outside, someone suggested they go raise a glass (perhaps at Fink's, the legendary bar?)…"
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From the Pages of History
October 6 was the 27th anniversary of President Anwar Sadat's assassination. Menachem Begin held their friendship in great respect and he made an extraordinary effort to be present at the funeral which fell on a Saturday, the Sabbath. Begin made special arrangements to honor both the Sabbath and his friend with whom he signed Israel's first peace treaty with an Arab country. Jehan Sadat, the widow of Anwar Sadat, said of Begin:
"I will never forget how Prime Minister Menachem Begin came to Cairo for the funeral of my husband. It was on Saturday and it was hot, and Menachem Begin insisted on walking the entire way on foot [from the hotel to the funeral] because of the holiness of the Sabbath. That won over my heart."
Sia'h v'Sig Tournament at the Center
Last week, eighteen students of Sia'h v'Sig—Israel's Debate Society—competed before nine judges last week to finalize the team that will be sent by Israel to international debate competitions in the upcoming months. Students came prepared for one debate and were given one hour to prepare their positions for their second debate. The winners will compete against other high-schoolers in international competitions in Canada and Europe, with the most important competition to be held in Athens. The Begin Center, in the past, has cooperated on various projects of the society connected to art of rhetoric, in the spirit of Menachem Begin's well-known eloquence.
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