The kashruth department of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate today declared a shipment of 3,000 tons of Argentinian beef en route to Israel to be non-kosher, and thereby presented the Ministry of Trade with a problem.
The Ministry must decide what to do with the meat which cost a great deal of money and which has been awaited eagerly by a meat-starved population. In addition, it is impossible to obtain any other meat at this time.
The beef was slaughtered under the supervision of Argentine rabbis, but the Chief Rabbi’s envoys in Argentina considered that the kashruth measures taken by the Argentine rabbinate were inadequate. On this basis the Chief Rabbinate in Israel decided to declare Argentine meat non-kosher until the Israeli envoys supervise its slaughter.
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