Israel's Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and other religious and civilian authorities will be attending the rededication of one of the oldest synagogues in Budapest, which until recently was used as a television studio.
The synagogue, in Budapest's Obuda neighborhood, was inaugurated in 1821.
After the Holocaust, during which hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were
killed, many of its members came from a nearby Jewish orphanage.
In the 1960s, the building was converted into a textile museum. Later, it became a studio for Hungary's state television.
Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen and Israel's Minister of Religious Services, Yakov Margi, are also expected to attend Sunday's ceremony.
Hungary's Jewish population is estimated at 100,000.
