The District Court at Jaffa has to-day ordered nine youths to pay £5 or go to prison for a month for sabotaging the census. All of them elected to go to prison rather than pay the fine, and went off to prison singing the “Hatikvah”. The authorities are putting them to light work in prison.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
