Rabbi Aaron Leib Kalmanowitz, 70, oldest living rabbi in the Soviet Union, arrived here today from the town of Annapol in the Soviet Ukraine.
For more than four years attempts to induce the Soviet authorities to grant him permission to leave the Soviet Union for Palestine failed, as officials regarded all rabbis as enemles and declined to allow them to leave the country. Recently these restrictions were modified.
Rabbi Kalmanowitz, who is ill, will recuperate here and then leave for Palestine, where he will make his home. The Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Rabbi A. I. HaCohen Kook, was instrumental in securing an immigration certificate for the aged Russian rabbi.
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