The Israel United Appeal, a biennial affair in South Africa, will be launched immediately to help Israel, the Zionist Federation of South Africa announced today. The campaign was not scheduled to open until next February.
Meanwhile, all synagogues in the country held special prayers for peace. In most of them the rabbis delivered sermons discussing the reasons behind Israel’s action against Egypt.
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