Italian Minister of Public Works Giuseppe Togni has informed Chief Rabbi Alfredo Toaff that the Italian Government has approved an allocation of the equivalent of $180,000 toward the reconstruction of the famous Leghorn Synagogue which was destroyed during the war. The sum represents half of the contribution pledged by the Italian Government toward the cost of rebuilding the synagogue.
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