Rabbi Meir Kahane and ten activists of his Kach movement staged a sit-in at the offices of the International Red Cross here Wednesday demanding that Syria’s 4000-member Jewish community be exchanged for Palestinians and Syrians taken prisoner by Israel during the war in Lebanon. Kahane asked the Red Cross to act as go-between in the exchange.
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