Sephardic and Ashkenazic Communities Make Claim for Fund (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jewish congregations in the city of Jerusalem are eager to prove their numerical superiority as the proof of their numerical strength will mean the receipt of a large bequest.
The competition was started by the announcement made by the Palestine government that Lady Belilius of Hongkong, who died in July, left the amount of £90,000, the will providing that the sum is to constitute an endowment fund, naming the beneficiary of the interest on this fund the “largest Jewish congregation in Jerusalem.”
The government of Palestine was named executor of the will.
Both the Sephardic and Ashkenazic communities of Jerusalem submitted claims that they dominate in numbers.
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