A bomb exploded at a General Zionist election meeting in the Bet Haam hall here this week-end, but no one was injured. The meeting was being addressed by Israel Rokach, former Mayor of Tel Aviv and former Minister of the Interior. Police immediately began an intensive investigation of the incident.
Still another bomb was exploded a day later at another meeting of the General Zionists. This meeting was held at ZOA House here, and the bomb was exploded just after the completion of an address by Tel Aviv’s Mayor Chaim Levanon. Again there were no casualties, both explosions having been caused by what were described as “scare bombs.”
This second bombing of a General Zionist meeting within twenty-four hours aroused a great deal of anxiety on the part of General Zionist leaders. They were said to regard the use of such methods as a grave danger to the entire concept of a free election campaign.
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