Dr. Henri Goslan, newly elected president of the reconstituted Algerian Jewish community, paid tribute to the Ben Bella Government for its “understanding attitude” to Algerian Jewry, it was reported here today from Algiers.
Dr. Goslan presented Algerian Jewry’s good wishes to the Algerian Government. Later, in an oral report, he said that some 25,000 Algerian Jews still remained in Algeria out of a total of 125, 000 who lived there when it was a French colony. Jewish sources in Paris questioned Dr. Goslan’s figure, indicating that actually there were no more than 6,000 Jews now living in Algeria.
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