The former chief rabbi of Rome was one of just two living people mentioned by Pope John Paul II in his last will and testament. Rabbi Elio Toaff, who hosted John Paul during the late pope’s 1986 visit to a synagogue in Rome — the first time a pope had ever visited a synagogue — was singled out for thanks, the Jerusalem Post reported.
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