About 40,000 workers from the Tel Aviv area today celebrated the First of May by picking up their tools and going to the border settlements to build fortifications there. They were taken by motorcades to various settlements where they dug trenches and air raid shelters and erected barbed wire barriers.
In Jerusalem, more than 5,000 residents-led by Mayor Gershon Agron–spent the May 1st holiday building fortifications around the settlements in the Jerusalem Corridor The call to devote May Day to work was issued by the Histadrut Israel Federation of Labor.
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