A second Jewish community in Tunisia, in the city of Sfax, has had a “caretaker” commission imposed by the government to conduct the affairs of its 3,000 Jews. M. Saada, president of the Jewish Community, was ordered by the government to hand his powers over temporarily to the “caretaker” commission, headed by a government appointee, M. Zarouk.
The Jewish Community Council in the capital, at Tunis, was dissolved by government order last July and was also replaced by a “caretaker” commission. Reports reaching here today assert that new elections among the Jews for a council in Tunis have been postponed, by government order, until next March. Originally, the government pledged itself to permit elections in Tunis before the end of 1958.
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