Larry King
and daughter Chaia
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RABIN MEDICAL CENTER
Larry King Partners With
Israeli Hospital In Cardiology
By Tim Boxer
 HE secret of Larry King’s success,
says his baby brother Marty Zeiger, is his humility.
“When you know how to fake that, you’ll succeed.”
Marty introduced his brother as emcee of the
American Friends Rabin Medical Center dinner at the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York with a story about the time Larry met Mikhail
Gorbachev.
“Did you ever meet Stalin?” Larry
asked.
“Once, at his funeral—the best place to
meet him.”
The
CNN celebrity interviewer announced that his Larry King Foundation
will help support Rabin’s cardiology unit at the center’s
campus in Petah Tikvah. That got hearty applause from such guests
as AFRMC chairman Abraham Cohen, Israel Friends president Nava
Barak, Judy Abrams of Bankers Trust, “Gypsy”
producer Anita Waxman, attorney Andrew Freedman,
jeweler Seymour Rosenthal, and Bill Fletcher, ceo of
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton saluted
the guests of honor, Wendy Siegel, president of the Big
Apple Circus, and her husband Stephen, a chairman of CB
Richard Ellis Real Estate Services.
King wouldn’t let Clinton off the stage
until she answered: If someone should form a draft Hillary Clinton
movement for the White House, what would you do?
The celebrated CNN interviewer failed to get
the answer he was hoping for. Clinton brushed him off with
“I’d say get Larry King.”
Larry
King, Hillary Rodham Clinton and
John Majors
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Israeli Ambassador Danny Ayalon
revealed that he’s a Rabin alumnus: “That was 47 years ago. I
want to thank RMC for a good delivery.”
“I thought he was going to describe his
bris,” King cracked.
John Major, former prime minister of
the United Kingdom, appeared as the keynote speaker armed with Winston
Churchill anecdotes:
Lady Nancy Astor came upon Churchill
as he was tottering in the halls of parliament. “Winston,
you’re drunk,” she snickered.
“Nancy, you’re ugly,” he responded.
“At least in the morning I’ll be sober.”
“If I were married to you,” she added,
“I’d put arsenic in your glass.”
“If I were married to you, I’d drink
it.”
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