Abraham Maccabi, foreman of the Jaffa telephone service, committed suicide yesterday. He was thirty-five years old and had come to Palestine in 1913. He served with the Zion Mule Corps at Gallipoli under Col. Paterson and in the Jewish Legion in Palestine. No reason for his suicide was given.
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