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Palestine Police Publish Photos of Jews Wanted for Terrorism

February 5, 1942
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The Palestine police today published in the press here photographs of seven men wanted in connection with recent terroristic activities in the country, specifically the bomb explosion in Tel. Aviv on January 20, which took the lives of three policemen.

The fugitives who are being sought by the authorities are: Abraham Ben Mordechai Stern, alias Yair, who police charge is the leader of the terrorists; Yacob Polanin, alias Polianoff; Nachman Shulman; Benyamin Zeroni, alias Yavniel, alias Avini, alias Kerner; Hanoch Sterlitz; Aaron Zukerman, alias Asch, alias Haivri and A. Meiri. It is believed that Meiri was one of the two men who died in the Jaffa hospital this week after being wounded in an exchange of shots with police who came to arrest him and three others in a house in Tel Aviv.

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