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The new United States ambassador to Israel, Daniel C. Kurtzer, who is the first Orthodox Jew to serve in that capacity, and his wife, Sheila arranged through Rabbi Menachem Genack, the rabbinic head of the OU, to have their official residence made kosher. On Thursday, July 19th, Rabbi Mordechai Kuber, the OU's representative in Israel, and Mr. David Fund, chairman of OU Kashrut in Israel, together with Mrs. Kurtzer, kashered the kitchen of the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Herzliya. Ambassador Kurtzer, who previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, had also arranged for the Embassy in Cairo to be kosher.