Fifteen have been arrested in the village of Saforia, Doar Hayom, Hebrew daily reports, on a charge of having murdered Chaim Jacoby and his nine-year-old son at Nahalal, in December, 1932. One of the arrested men confessed his guilt, according to the report.
Jacoby and his young son were injured when a bomb was thrown into their home on the night of Dec. 22. They subsequently died of their injuries in the hospital at Haifa.
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