A source close to Eliyahu also told the Post that the rabbi was summoned to the US embassy, asked to give over his passport and then his visa was taken out and the passport returned.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends to the funeral of Rabbi Elazar Mordechai Koenig in Safed on December 31, 2018.(photo credit: DAVID COHEN/FLASH 90)ByZVIKA KLEIN, LAHAV HARKOVUpdated: