Press reports in which it was claimed that Dr, Israel Jacob De Haan, the late executive secretary of the Agudas Israel in Palestine was at one time registered in a passport as a Catholic seem to be unfounded in fact, not has it been proved that his wife would claim the transfer of his body to a Christian cemetery on the basis of such a passport entry.
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