Twenty Arabs were arrested today in connection with the death of J. Jakoby and his nine year old son of Nahalal, who succumbed to injuries received when a bomb was thrown into their home on the night of December 22nd.
The arrests were made after a police search of ten Arab stores and apartments discovered metallic parts similar to those contained in the bomb which killed the Jewish colonist and his son.
The Jakoby deaths have aroused considerable alarm in Palestine and representatives of the Jewish Agency have joined with public opinion in de-
manding a reorganization of the police in the Haifa district who are accused of laxity.
Indignation has run high, particularly in view of the fact that the Jakoby deaths are part of a series of outrages, and it is suspected that an Arab terrorist organization is responsible for all of them.
In this connection the outrages at Yadjur and Kfar Hassidim are recalled.
The Yadjur shooting outrage occurred on the Haifa Road in April of 1931, when a group of Jewish laborers returning to the Yadjur labor settlement from the Nesher Cement Factory were shot by a band of Arabs in ambush. Three members of the party, Hinda Fishman, Samuel Dishnel and Jacob Zamil, were killed outright. The fourth, Breina Halperin, died of her wounds. The police failed to trace the murderers.
In the same area there also occurred the Kfar Hassidim outrage last March, when a colonist named Joseph Bur-stein was shot dead in his house in the colony of Balfouria, also about midnight. None of the murderers were ever apprehended.
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