Responding to an urgent call from Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, the Israel Foreign Ministry today arranged to send a surgeon from Hadassah Hospital here to attend the Emperor’s son-in-law who was seriously injured in an automobile accident. The Emperor’s son-in-law has already been operated on by one of the nine Israeli physicians already working in Ethiopia.
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