The Agudas Israel executive, in a cable to U.N. Palestine mediator Count Folke Bernadotte and U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, today rejected the mediator’s plan for incorporating Jerusalem into the proposed Arab state in Palestine. The message demanded that the city be internationalized in accordance with the original United Nations partition decision. The dispatch of the message followed a conference in Jerusalem of all the city’s leading rabbis, including Agudah executive chairman and Israeli Minister for Social Welfare Rabbi I.M. Lewin, who told the meeting that the Old City has been destroyed and “the new city is now facing the same danger.”
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