Twenty-four hour curfew was imposed on the Musrara quarter of Jerusalem, adjacent to the Old City, today following the wounding of a Jew by Arab terrorists. The victim was Aaron Shabatai Piran, 28. Another Jew, Ephraim Cohen, was seriously wounded when a band of terrorists attacked a group of Jewish workers at the Migdal Zedek quarries. An automobile driver, Fishel Teler, 42, was shot dead in the Burj quarter of Haifa, leaving a wife and four children.
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