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American Jew Arrested in Palestine for Attempting to Hoist Red Flag.

August 5, 1931
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Mr. Ben Zion Friedlander, son of the late Professor Israel Friedlander of the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York, was arrested to-day during an attempt which he made to hoist a red flag near the Herzlia High School.

Two young Georgian Jews were arrested when they made a similar attempt on the road between Jaffa and Tel Aviv. At the same time, red flags were hoisted near the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem by unidentified young men.

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