Raphael Kotlowitz, head of the Jewish Agency’s aliya department, told reporters upon his return from a visit to Rumania that that country’s Jewish community is disappearing, with almost no marriages or births and more deaths every day. He quoted Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen as saying the community now numbered only 33,000 — less than usually thought. Kotlowitz said that most Rumanian Jews were now elderly and many are living on welfare. At one stop on his visit, at Tamishra, he learned that only two Jewish babies were born this year while 65 elderly Jews had died, out of a total Jewish population of 1,800.
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