Leaders of Rumanian Jews in Israel today started an “unlimited” hunger strike as an expression of protest against the mass arrests of Jewish leaders in Rumania. At the same time, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel proclaimed today as a fasting day for all Jews in the country who wish to express solidarity with Jews arrested in Rumania on charges of “Jewish nationalism” and Zionism.
Meetings at which the mass arrests of Jews in Rumania were denounced were held today throughout the country. In Tel Aviv a huge meeting was addressed by Chief Rabbi Iser Judah Unterman and by other speakers who reported on the persecution of Jews in Bucharest and other Rumanian cities.
(In London, the official B.B.C. radio station today beamed a Rumanian language broadcast to Rumania on the protests of the Jews in Israel and in other democratic countries against the mass trials of Zionist leaders in Bucharest. “The free world salutes in them people who had the courage of their convictions, ” the broadcast said. “They were silenced by force; they were knocked down, but not defeated.”)
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