About 30 members of the Jewish Defense League and Betar led by Rabbi Meir Kahone Thursday afternoon seized the offices here of the Herut Party in protest against Israel’s withdrawal from Sinai. The Herut Party supports the policies of Premier Menachem Begin. Betar is the youth movement of Herut.
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