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During President Shazar's visit in 5733, the Rebbe told him: Here is the real UN - not in the glass room in Manhattan but here. Then the Rebbe pointed to Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, from the shluchim in Morocco who was present, saying he is our representative in Morocco... | During President Shazar's visit in 5733, the Rebbe told him: Here is the real UN - not in the glass room in Manhattan but here. Then the Rebbe pointed to Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, from the shluchim in Morocco who was present, saying he is our representative in Morocco... | ||
== | == Member Countries and Representatives == | ||
* Holy Land - Reb Chaim Shalom Segal | |||
* Russia - Reb Yehuda Butrashvili (Kulshar) | |||
* Finland and Baltic States - Reb Chaim Mordechai Isaac Hodakov, head of the Rebbe's secretariat | |||
* Egypt - Reb Shmaryahu Gurary (since he visited Egypt with the Frierdiker Rebbe), son-in-law of the Frierdiker Rebbe and director of Tomchei Temimim Yeshivas | |||
* United States - Reb Shmuel Levitin - head mashpia of the central Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva and elder Chabad chossid | |||
* France - Reb Yosef Goldberg - head of Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva in Brunoy | |||
* England - Reb Bentziyon Shemtov - shadar in England | |||
* Other European Countries - Reb Binyamin Eliyahu Gorodetzky, the Rebbe's representative in Europe | |||
* Australia - Reb Abba Pliskin | |||
* Brazil - Reb Tzvi Hirsh Chitrik, formerly served as shliach in Brazil | |||
* Hungary - Reb Tzvi Meir Steinmetz | |||
* Iraq - Reb Yitzchak Yadgar - the Rebbe's shliach to the Tanakim settlements in the Holy Land | |||
* Yemen - Reb Zechariah Guri - rav of Moshav Avital in the Holy Land | |||
* Germany - Reb Avrohom Yitzchak Glick, traveling shliach in Europe | |||
* South Africa - Reb Yosef Weinberg, shadar who also visited South Africa | |||
* Argentina - Reb Refael Tawil | |||
* Canada - Reb Yitzchak Hendel | |||
* Morocco - Reb Yehuda Leib Raskin - the Rebbe's shliach to Morocco | |||
* Tunisia - Reb Refael Wilshansky - secretary of the European Lubavitch office | |||
* Mexico - Reb Shalom Shabbat | |||
* Denmark - Reb Avrohom Azdaba - rav and member of Crown Heights Beis Din | |||
* Belgium - Reb Chaim Aryeh Silberstein | |||
* Romania - Reb Zalman Abelsky - the Rebbe's shliach and Chief Rabbi of Moldova | |||
* Poland - Reb Moshe Pinchas Katz - head gabbai of 770 | |||
== Further Reading == | |||
* "By the Rebbe we saw actual revelation of G-dliness", interview with Reb Yosef Yitzchak Gopin describing the events of establishing the 'UN' in Kfar Chabad magazine issue 1878 page 31 | |||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
[[United Nations]] | [[United Nations]] | ||