Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Palestine sailed today on the South African steamship City of New York for Cape Town en route home after a four-month visit to the United States to seek support for Palestine religious institutions. He will proceed to Jerusalem from Cape Town by airplane or steamship.
Delegations of rabbinical and Zionist groups were on hand at the Brooklyn pier to bid farewell to Rabbi and Mrs Her Hertzog. The ship was thoroughly searched by Federal agents before the sailing as result of an anonymous telephone call to police warning that a Nazi agent had planted a bomb on the vessel timed to explode before its departure.
Before sailing, Dr. Hertzog received a gift of $10,000 from Hadassah for transfer of Talmudic students from Lithuania to Palestine, relief of refugee rabbis and scholars already in Palestine and facilitation of establishment of religious teachers in colonies. In announcing the gift, Mrs. David de Sola Pool, Hadassah president, stressed the “age-old duty of Israel to safeguard and enrich the religious teachings of the Jewish people.”
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