The chief rabbis of Israel met with Pope John Paul II. Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar, making their first trip to the Vatican, said they asked the pope last Friday to speak out against anti-Semitism and to act on behalf of Israelis held by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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