Wednesday, April 27, 2011

PM Netanyahu celebrates Mimouna festival in Or Akiva

(PMO). Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah tonight on the occasion of the Maimouna holiday, visited the Biton family in Or Akiva.

The Netanyahus celebrated Maimouna – and the 60th anniversary of the founding of Or Akiva – with Edmond Biton, his wife Yehudit, and their children, as well as with ministers, MKs and other guests.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said that those present were celebrating the festival of one of Israel's most important ethnic communities, which has brought many Jews along with much sweetness, pleasantness, grace, love of Torah and love of one's fellow man. "This festival has become a holiday foe all Israel and it expresses our desire for unity. This happiness, like many others, is also mixed with sadness. I send our condolences to the Livnat family over the death of Ben Yosef. Neither will we forget our POWs and MIAs, no cease our efforts to bring them back home, especially Gilad Shalit."