THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 8 Friday, July 13, 1919 FREE POSTAGE with Meter Rental 342-7801 Begin Is Warmly Received at Alexandria Synagogue ALEXANDRIA (JTA) "You will have to ask the permission of President Sadat to take this book with you," said Clement R. Set- ton, president of the Jewish community of Alexandria, to Israeli Premier Menahem Begin -as he handed him an old Torah, property of the Eliahu Hanavi Synagogue. Setton was serious. The Torah he gave as a gift of the community is one of 20 still kept by the Jewish commu- nity here, the symbolic re- mains of a _once great com- munity of 100,000 Jews. The Torahs, are considered antiquities, and by law they cannot be given away with- out specific permission of the government. Begin arrived at the synagogue, some 200 yards from the picturesque . THE FINEST AND LARGEST POOL BUILDER IN THE MIDWEST Almost a quarter of a century of supplying discriminating buyers has earned an unequaled reputation for -Miami Pools. 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The small Begin rector general of the entourage arrived at the Premier's Office, and synagogue, escorted by Yehiel Kadishai, his head screaming sirens of the of bureau, standing be- Alexandria police and side him. "It was more than I ex- cheered by crowds at the entrance to the , petted. I thought Begin was synagogue and crowding a very reserved man, but he balconies overlooking let his feelings be shown," a spectator said. the building. _ The hall of the beautiful Begin thanked his hosts 100-year-old synagogue with a brief speech, begin- was packed, mainly with ning with "Shehekheyanu" newsmen, but also the benediction. He recalled the majority of the 250 mem- role the community had bers of the community. played in ancient times, and "This is the largest gather- mentioned the absorption of ing we have ever had," said many of Alexandria's Jews Ellie Danon, one of the in Israel. – community's leaders. "It is "Today I bring with me even larger than on Yom the most important of mes- Kippur." sages — the message of peace." He expressed the The Alexandria commu- hope that Alexandria Jews nity was once one of the bet- could soon join their ter off and best organized families in Israel. communities in _ the Mideast, but with three Following his breif wars between Israel and speech, Begin kissed the Egypt it gradually deter- Torah scrolls and once- iorated to only a small again gave the number of families, most of "Shehekheyane bless- them aging.' Thus it was not ing. _ the 90-year-old rabbi who _As he came out of the led. the services, but one of building, the crowd on the the community's dig- street greeted him with nitaries. chants of "Begin, Begin." There were tears in the Obviously pleased at this eyes of many of the women warm welcome, Begin and the elderly who raised his arms and waved attended the ceremony. back. His security guards They held hands with Be- had to pull him back to the gin, and some of them kis- car. sed him, thanking the Is- Another "security prob- raeli premier for the mo-_, lem" occurred when Leah_ Mandelbaum, an elderly Jewish resident of Alexan- dria, made a point of hand- g Begin two packages, each containing a home- baked cake. She had only recently returned from a brief visit to Israel, ar- ranged with the personal help of Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. She insisted that she be allowed to hand the cakes to Begin personalty — without having her packages checked by the police. She did not accept the e planation that no package could be handed to the Pre- mier without prior check- ing. "You know 'who is Mandelbaum?" She asked the security guards, re- counting the history of the Mandelbaum family in Jerusalem in fluent He- brew. 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