Chief Rabbi Haim Nahoum of Egypt is under house arrest and is not allowed out of his home, even to attend synagogue services, a party of 34 Egyptian Jews who arrived here today reported.
The Jews, all of whom had been expelled from Egypt, told the now familiar story of Egyptian raids on November 1 against Jews, their arrest and imprisonment and finally, their deportation, A number of the Jews in todays group held Italian nationality.
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