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Musical memorial to Shlomo Argov

March 18, 2010 11:51
Gidon Argov launching the tribute to his father with Ron Prosor

ByLeon Symons, Leon Symons

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The son of the late Israeli ambassador, Shlomo Argov, dedicated a music room in his memory at the refurbished Israeli Embassy on Monday.

Mr Argov was shot in the head at point-blank range as he left a dinner at the Dorchester Hotel in London's Mayfair in June, 1982, leaving him paralysed except for some movement in his head.

After emergency brain surgery, he spent three months in hospital in Britain before being transferred to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital, where he remained until his death in 2003.

"It was a very emotional moment," said American-based Gidon Argov. "Some film was shown of my father speaking and from the evening when he was attacked. It was not easy to be transported back to 1982."