The Chief Rabbinate of Palestine has decided to postpone decision on the request of the Bedouin tribe, Al Semani, in the neighborhood of Safed, to be permitted to return to Judaism, until the return of Sir Herbert Samuel and Rabbi A. J. Kook, to Palestine.
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