Gala celebrates Bet El

The 4,000 year old story of Bet El continues on Sunday, Dec. 4, when American Friends of Bet El draws Israel-boosting headliners to its 34th annual dinner at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan — former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Danny Danon.

Ken and Nira Abramowitz will be guests of honor at the gala. The Shomer Yisrael award will be presented to Marc and Alan Berger, Pinny and Yael Farkas will receive the Young Leadership award, and Larry Gordon will receive the Builder of Bet El award.

Bolton, who has been mentioned as a possible choice for secretary of state in the Trump administration, is chairman of the Gatestone Institute, an international champion of Israeli causes. 

A steadfast supporter of Prime Minister Netanyahu, Bolton has said that Palestinian statehood “would inevitably lead to a terrorist state on the other side of the border with Israel.”

Danon, who previously served a member of the Knesset, has said that he has three agendas — to use the U.N. as a vehicle through which to share Israel’s technological, medical, agricultural, scientific and other gifts with the world; to vociferously fight the systemic prejudice against Israel that plagues the U.N.; and to “go on the attack” against the promotion of a boycott of Israel and incitement against the Jewish state. 

“We will not be silent and sit idly by when someone is bashing us,” Danon said. “We will stand up, we will fight.”

Bet El is in Shomron, north of Jerusalem near Ramallah.

American Friends of Bet El extends its gratitude to Dr. Joseph Frager, a philanthropist dedicated to Bet El and all of Israel.