Communist China will not permit the transfer of the remains of the late Chief Rabbi of Harbin, and the Far East, Rabbi Kisilov, until there is a “diplomatic agreement” between the Peiping, Government and Israel. Israel’s Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog was informed today by S.N. Kenner, head of the Jewish community at Harbin.
The Communist government is also holding up the transfer of the remains of other Jewish dead from the Harbin cemetery until an official agreement is made between Israel and Red China. The old Jewish cemetery at Harbin was recently expropriated by the Chinese authorities in Manchuria as a site for a new housing development, and the local Jewish community was given several months to transfer the remains.
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