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People  & Parties With Panache American Friends of Open University of Israel Gala


Dinner at the Plaza.

President Ingeborg Rennert and chairman of the Board Baron Robert de Rothschild of the American Friends of the Open University honored Dr. Paul LeClerc, president of the New York Public Library, at a gala celebration on Monday, June 16 at The Plaza in New York.

Two hundred guests attended the festive event and raised $400,000 for the university's 43,000 students, its educational programs and scholarships.

Guests included: Ingeborg and Ira Rennert, David Avital, Dr. Patricia Cayne, Elaine Wolfensohn, Larry and Kim Heyman, Lauren and Ezra Merkin, Dalia and Larry Leeds, Eddie and Rebecca Sugar, Nina and Mitch Davidson, Barbara and Donald Tober, Gail and Ephraim Propp, Malcolm Thomson, Judy and Stanley Zabar, Danielle Levine, Dan and Marlene Arbess, Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Marilyn and Lawrence Friedland, William and Elyssa Friedland, Rochelle and David Hirsch and the Honorable Raymond Kelly.

Dr. LeClerc received the coveted Yigal Allon Award, named in honor of the late Deputy Prime Minister of Israel and former Minister of Education.

The Open University of Israel has become Israel's largest university.  The highly ranked institution affords the military during the years of compulsory service, the large immigrant population, the disabled, the indigent, and the Yeshiva student, the opportunity to study via long-distance learning. The Open University demonstrates that the Internet is the classroom of the 21st century.

Co-chairs of the event included Baron Robert de Rothschild, Malcolm Thomson, Patricia D. Cayne, Elie Wiesel, and Elaine Wolfensohn.


Ira Leon and Ingeborg Rennert, honoree Dr. Paul LeClerc and Dr. Judith Ginsberg.


Elisabeth Doft, Nira Abramowitz, Alan Doft, Elaine Wolfensohn.


Andrew Lowinger, J. Ezra Merkin, Lauren Merkin and Basya Lowinger.


Raymond Kelly, Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert, Malcolm Thomson.


Ronnie and Ralou Stern.


Dr. Alan and Lori Harris, Lisa and Steven Perelman.


Tami Winn, Rebecca Sugar, Caryn Zucker, Nina Davidson.


Elise and David Efron, Elyssa and William Friedland.


Malcolm Thomson, Tama Werner, Dr. Joseph Sozio and Amy Kamin.


Larry and Kim Heyman.


Jason Hirsch, Tami Winn, David and Elise Efron, Danielle Levine.


Eddie Sugar and Mitchell Davidson.


Rochelle and Jason Hirsch.

Photos: Ellen Dubin
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