More than 1000 persons attended a memorial service for the 1854 Israeli soldiers killed in the Yom Kippur War. The service at the Circulo Israelita Temple here was conducted by Rabbi Angel Kreiman assisted by Mauricio Pitchon, spiritual leader of the Sephardic community.
Moshe Tov, Israeli Ambassador to Chile, expressed the hope that the blood of the soldiers and the tears of their mothers were not shed in vain and a real and lasting peace will be achieved. The Chilean Jewish community has sent a telegram signed by the presidents of all Jewish organizations here to Leon Dulzin, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, expressing their unconditional support of Israel during the current crisis.
Tov, meanwhile, also gave a luncheon at his home for Chilean journalists and intellectuals at which he praised the Chilean people for their democratic aims of freedom and progress. He stressed that Israel’s only wish is to have a permanent and lasting peace in the Middle East.
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