The Israeli Embassy in Bonn denied German press reports that Israel refused to recognize the Orthodox conversion of the daughter of German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and will not grant her citizenship. Embassy officials said there had merely been bureaucratic delays in processing the citizenship application of Andrea Kinkel, who is married to an Israeli and had converted in the United States.
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