The Jerusalem Post reports Israeli researcher Shimon Lev is planning to attend a ceremony to unveil a two-person statue of Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach.

According to Jpost, Lev is completing his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on perceptions of India in the Jewish world, and is the author of a book about the special relationship between the two men called “Soulmates: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach.”

Published in 2012, the book is based on documents and letters contained in the Kallenbach archive in Haifa, then under the possession of his great-niece, Dr. Isa Sarid, who co-authored a 1997 biography of her uncle with Christian Bartolf, Jerusalem Post reports. After Sarid’s death in 2012, they were sold to the Indian government. While Kallenbach never married or had children, Lev tracked down his great-nephew Eli Sarid, who lives in Tel Aviv and will also attend the ceremony, according to Jpost.

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