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Sunday, October 22, 2017
British expats plan to celebrate Balfour Declaration centenary in Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Association of British Immigrants announces plans to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration with a celebration for expat Brits in Israel.
The event will be held at the national event in the center in Zichron Yaakov on November 2, exactly 100 years to the day from when the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Walter Rothschild declaring support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
The event will feature internationally acclaimed Israeli opera singer Goni Knaani performing “a gamut of favorite Israeli songs,” according to a statement from the ABI. It will also include recorded video messages from former chief rabbi of the UK and the Commonwealth, Lord Jonathan Sacks, and Lord Jacob Rothschild, the great-nephew of Lord Walter Rothschild.
The Times of Israel Community.