Italian Count Goffredo Polidori said today that he had been denied an Italian passport by the Italian Foreign Ministry because he had fought as a volunteer in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence and was therefore “considered an Israeli citizen.”
Count Polidori, a Catholic, arrived in Palestine with a group of clandestine immigrants and fought with the Jewish forces as a captain under the name of Abraham Cohen. He has already sent a request for information to Israel officials on the possibility of becoming a citizen of Israel.
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