Alexei, Patriarch of all the Russians, who is visiting here, today received Chief Rabbis Isaac Herzog and Ben Zion Usiel at an audience for religious leaders of the various communities in Palestine.
Earlier, replying to a question put to him at a press conference, Alexei said that the Russian Church approved and welcomed the Soviet policy of barring all anti-Jewish discrimination in the USSR.
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