Moshe Gilboa, Israel’s Consul General in Atlanta, Ga., said here that the furor over the case of the Black Hebrews in Dimona is harming Israel’s image among American Blacks in the South. He noted that the American press, in blowing up current tensions in the Negev city, has harmed relations between Jews and Blacks in the South – relations which were always regarded as good.
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