A call for financial assistance for Palestinian Jews detained and deported to Eritrean prison camps and for their families, was issued here today by the Asirai Zion Fund.
Relating the arrest and detention of hundreds of Jewish men and women on suspicion of terrorism, the call points out that the prisoners need legal aid and medical supplies. In many instances the breadwinner of a family has been imprisoned for years and the family has been forced to depend upon local charity, which is often insufficient, it states.
The fund for the “captives of Zion” is headed by an honorary committee consisting of Rabbis Samuel Brot, Leo Jung, Louis I. Newman and Morris M. Rose and Professors Chaim Tchernowitz and A.S. Yahuda. The treasurer is Morris Weinberg, publisher of the Jewish Day.
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