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9 “illegals’ Enter 4th Day of Hunger Strike in Jerusalem

January 17, 1936
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Nine illegal immigrants, today entered the fourth day of a hunger strike in the Jerusalem jail. They said from their cells that they would fast “to the death, ” complaining that although they had served their terms they were being held in prison pending deportation.

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