Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren met today with the apostolic delegate in Jerusalem, Monsignor Pio Lagghi, to enlist his church’s aid on two humanitarian issues: Israeli POWs in Syria and Israeli dead still on the battlefields of Sinai within the control of Egypt’s Second and Third Armies. According to the Chief Rabbi’s bureau, the Monsignor promised to pass on Rabbi Goren’s representations immediately to the Pope. Delicate contacts between Israel and the International Red Cross are proceeding on both these subjects, but officials here refuse to divulge any details.
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