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Bulletin Jew Killed, 5 Wounded in Ambush

August 21, 1938
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A Jewish special policeman was killed and five other Jews, three of them women, were wounded today when an Arab band of ten ambushed a bus near Shaar Hamakin, Jewish colony south of Haifa. The slain policeman was Joseph Finkelstein, 35, a native of Rumania. The wounded were: Miss Moa Tilman, 15, dangerously; Alfred Lehman, 42, seriously; Zeev Isersohn, 38, Mrs. Natalia Tabenkin, 45, and Rivka Weinstein, 35, all slightly.

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