A New York delegation seeking aid for Syria’s remaining 4,000 Jews was received “sympathetically” yesterday at the State Department and five Embassies and on Capitol Hill. Rabbi Abraham Hecht of the Syrian Jewish Congregation Shaare Zion, Brooklyn, who headed the delegation, said Edward Abington and Andrew Kilgore of the State Department’s Syrian desk “showed very real interest” in the plight of Syrian Jews and “promised to continue every effort through third-party nations and friendly countries” to assist them.
“We tried to emphasize,” Rabbi Hecht said, “that while four years have passed since the Six-Day War, the imprisonment and torture of the Syrian Jews have continued and the conditions might get worse. The delegation visited the offices of five Senators and the Embassies of Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Mexico and Spain.
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