A delegation from Safad headed by Mayor Aharon Nachmias, met with Justice Minister Haim Zadok today to demand that the government re-institute the death penalty for terrorists. Zadok repeated his announcement in the Knesset that the Cabinet would soon discuss the death penalty in view of the latest terrorist outrage at Maalot. Most of the victims were high school students from Safad. The delegation also demanded the construction of a district court in Safad. Zadok said he would study the request with the Minister of Housing.
The Safad police department announced that it has been re-enforced by more than 100 local volunteers, mostly army reservists trained in the use of weapons. A delegation of the American Jewish Committee visited Mayor Nachmias yesterday with messages of condolence from Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.NY), Mayor Abraham D. Beame of New York City and other officials. Javits’ mother was born in Safad and is buried there. The delegation brought gifts for the children wounded at Maalot who are convalescing in a Safad hospital.
Res. Gen. Amos Horev, head of a three-man panel named by Premier Golda Meir to investigate the Maalot massacre, said the commission would start work today in Haifa. Horev is president of the Haifa Technion.
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