A new group plans to launch an international campaign to discover the fate of 11 Iranian Jews who disappeared en route to Israel during the 1990s. New information indicates some of the 11 are still alive and being held in a Tehran jail, Yehuda Kasif, the association’s co-founder, told a Knesset committee Tuesday, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz.
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