There are about 300 Jewish members of Britain’s regular armed forces but only one of them, a Royal Navy officer, is known to be serving in the Falkland Islands task force, Rev. Malcolm Weisman, chief Jewish chaplain to Britain’s armed forces, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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