The Israel Chief Rabbinate announced that 867 tons of a shipment of 1,127 tons of beef from Argentina which arrived today is kosher. The Rabbinate’s statement said that on the basis of additional information received here it was decided that the 867 tons, which was slaughtered at the city of Rosario, was kosher and that only the 260 tons butchered at Gualicacio was non-kosher.
After a discussion of the Chief Rabbinate’s declaration that some of the Argentine beef on route to Israel is non-kosher, the Ministers reaffirmed that it is “the government’s policy to order only kosher meat.” Reporting the decision, a spokesman added that the Cabinet has undertaken to supply kosher meat to those who demand it. He declared that a special rabbinical delegation will leave for Argentina shortly to supervise the slaughter of beef destined for Israel.
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