The government today appointed a committee of five Cabinet members to investigate complaints of religious groups in the country that religious edicts are being violated in the immigrant camps. The committee is to report its findings to a Cabinet meeting here next Wednesday.
(The United Religious Bloc of America, representing various rabbinical organizations and Orthodox congregations, today sent a cable to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem requesting that children of religious immigrants in Israel should receive religious education in the camps and that parents should not be forced to send their children to non-religious schools.)
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