Rabbi Gurwitz, who was arrested in Russia recently while on a pilgrimage to the grave of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hassidism, and was released as the result of intervention by the British authorities through the mediation of Chief Rabbi Kook, returned to Palestine safely to-day.
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