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NEW YORK. (JTA)—Chief Rab-
bi Yebuda Len) Levin of Moscow,
the Russian capital's only rabbi
during the past three years, died
there Wednesday at age 78. He
leaves his wife, three daughters
and 15 grandchildren.
Reports of the cause of death
conflicted. Some attributed it to
pneumonia, others to cancer of the
prostate. Rabbi Levin was hospi-
talized this year for a prostate
condition.
Funeral services, limited by the
authorities to three hours, will be
held Sunday afternoon at Mos-
cow's Choral Synagogue, where
Rabbi Levin was spiritual leader
for about a decade.
Rabbi Levin, a tall man with im-
pressive bearing, studied in Sla-
The daughteri
bodka, a suburb of Kovno, Lithu-
Yehtt=
ania, under Rabbi Baruch Ber da Leib Levin greet Min on his
Leibowitz. He then became rabbi return from a trip to the U.S.
of Dniepetrovsk, White Russia, in 1968.
and subsequently became the di-
rector and then rabbi of one of that he was{ under constant
Moscow's two yeshiva.
veillance by. SoViet -aents.. The
A controversial figure because, Orthodox saw him av- a heroic
of his defense of Soviet policy to- figure who had managed-to-main-
ward Jews, Rabbi Levin was backed tain some semblance of JeWish life,
by Orthodox groups, who stressed such as synagogue activities and
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Committee to Probe 'RePorts:
of- Major:Oil$Catidol- - in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA)-A. state was accused of having sold at a
committee of inquiry into allege; very low Price, • equipment he'
lions of a/ major ,. scandal in Is- longing, to the government-owned
rael's operation of of fields in 'company to another of firm which
occupied Sinai Peninsula was ap- he owns. He also - charged gross
pointed Sunday by the- president mismanagement-by Friedman, - ,in-
of the .supreme court, Dr. Shimon eluding altering the books. He said
Agranat . that valuable equipment belonging
Dr. Agranat acted at the request to Netivei Neft simply "vanished"
of the cabinet:- which has been -Whfie-'-:- the .company's - directors-
studying allegations of. grass anit -Aniperrisorsi'thrned a blind
gularities made againtt Mordechai: eye r,
Friedman, director of -the govern-: ':- Since: the diaries, were. brought,
ment-owned Netivei Neft Co: that allegations have been made that
has been operating the-Sinai-oil _certain_ high 'government officials
fields since shortly after -the . Sis- were involved; afi least-peripher-
alleyiith,Friedmart. One was Dr.
The committee will he
Zvi Dinstem, deputy minister of
ed by Supreme Court 'alike -AV.-
whose . resignation has
Fred Winn, wha..asca - lodge in:. been ,_demanded.- by some news-
- the lower courts:. spechthred
Papers on . grounds that he was
The net sufficiently' Watchful,over the
financial and _tai-
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a - mem ber of
the commission of inquiry over the
Michael, and Avrahsint alCatir, objectiena -: of Justice 'Minister
Levin Dead
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which had 'sent him.
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Arguing, that he was not an
agent of the Kremlin, he said his
mission was solely to cement rela-
tionsbetween Jewry in the SoViet
Union and abroad.
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matzo baking in his officially athe- 2 Injured by Bomb on Tel- Aviv Bus
istic country.
TEL AVIV OTA) — A Petah evacuated the vehicle when they
They - also saw him as a tragic. Tikva
woman and a boy - fiom spotted a siispicious looking parcel.
figure who had to say publicly Kfar
were slightly injured Erplor''
-fa4ed to detonate
what - be, with his dep- religions when Saba
a
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ed a hostile reception when, in an detained by police for questioningi,
apearance at Huntei-College here,
A police detachment. waSI; 'sent
he ,denied. the existence of Soviet; to conduct an investigetiiiiii:at the
inti-Sernitism.,:in, a. radio .:interz. Arab . :yin a ge.- ,ef Itre;; :_sibere
view that' week,
bus had . stettieV,Tlie'Oehi0e wa
_restrictions on culture , " . work and flaitiaged.
similar liatfteisf-livere• aiminated, Laic month' id eiciiioSien -ReaV*
and the Jews have the same rights dimaged„ a bus in Haifa moments,
as other nationalities.",
after t.its'-lassengers and -driver
Charges of such anti-Semitism,
he :said, stemmed
tongues, evil tongues,- thoie:. that
engage in gossip,"and7ivere:. cir-
culated by "false prophits7-ilelio
sought "strained relations
the governments."
"American Jews, he said, could
c ome to Rustia themselves and see
that Jews there "occupy a promi-
merit place in science and tech:
nology, in literature and arts, and
we like all other peoples are con-
tributing our part to all branches
of the economy in building our
socialist society."
Albert D. Chernin, coordinator
of the American Jewish ConferT
ence on Soviet Jewry, protekted
then that Rabbi Levin "has been
obliged to place a fine gloss over
the real and tragic plight of-Soviet
Jewry." -
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president
of , the World Jewish Congress,
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