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Jews Release 260 Arab Prisoners of War to Return to Their Families Living in Israel

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Two-hundred-and-sixty Palestine Arab war prisoners who participated in the fighting in Palestine were released this weekend to rejoin their families. Most of them will settle in Israeli territory in Western Galilee.

Amid festive ceremonies the prisoners entrained from Sarafand for a trip via Lydda and Haifa up to Acre in the first rail journey between these two points. since the war began. The majority of the released prisoners received vocational training during their imprisonment. This is the largest group to be released at one time.

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