More than 400 delegates and 2,000 guests from 15 countries assembled here today for the Fifth World Congress of the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel World Organization.
Chief Rabbis Yitzhak Nissim and Yehuda Isser Untermann will address the conclave which will last for ten days. The establishment in Jerusalem of a World Educational Center for the movement is on the agenda.
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