Palestine had one of its quietest week-ends since last November despite the fact that at least 11 Arabs and Jews died in a number of attacks in various parts of the country yesterday and today. Five Arabs died in Haifa when a mortar shell exploded and one Arab and five Jews were killed when an Arab mob false rumor that the Jews had kidnapped 12 Arabs.
Telephone and telegraph lines between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv were cut late| tonight. There were several clashes in Jerusalem and on the road leading to the Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus and there was some activity on the Tel Aviv border. Two different convoys were attacked on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road today and one was forced to turn back by the intensity of the Arab attack.
In Jerusalem today the Jewish community were satisfied that the money would not pay taxes to the municipal government until they were satisfied that the money would be used for Jewish projects while Daniel Auster, former Jewish mayor of the city, said that the Jews would take care of their section if separate municipal councils were formed and each body was permitted to spend its funds on improvements for its own people. Meanwhile, Dr. Abraham Grenovsky, director of the J.N.F., told a press conference that committees had been established to preserve and expand Jewish industry, trade and housing in the city.
Plans for a 13-member provisional Jewish government of Palestine representing all political parties have been completed here by the Jewish Agency and the National Jewish Council, with the Portfolios being allocated as follows: Mapai, 4, General Zionists 3; United Labor Party, 2; Mizrachi. 1; Poale Mizrachi 1; Revisionists; 1; The Revisionists have thus for refused to enter the government.
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