Rabbi Dabi Maatuk, a member of the Tel Aviv rabbinical committee, left this week for Egypt to help Egyptian Jews to set up a new kosher system. Maatuk, who served until 20 years ago as the Chief Rabbi of Alexandria, went on his mission to Egypt at the initiative of the religious services bureau of the World Zionist Organization and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Maatuk will stay in Egypt two months. He will look into the condition of the synagogues, the Jewish cemeteries, and the community institutions in various cities, particularly in Cairo and Alexandria. He took with him a number of ritual articles as gifts for the Egyptian Jewish community.
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