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Mayor of Tel Aviv Lays Down the Law

January 8, 1935
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Mayor Meier Dizengoff failed to appear today at the regular meeting of the municipal council but instead dispatched a letter to that body threatening to resign unless certain conditions he laid down were accepted.

The mayor was particularly incensed at an incident which occurred at the last meeting of the council. The Laborite members of the body taunted the mayor with the cry “Nashashibi,” the name of the recently defeated Moslem mayor of Jerusalem, known for his anti-Jewish policy.

Over the stubborn opposition of the Laborites, the council accepted the terms laid down by Mayor Dizengoff.

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