Leaders of the Habad Chassidic movement in Israel declared today that their world leader, the Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York, has given his support to Chief Chaplain Shlomo Goren of the Israel Army for the post of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi in Israel.
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