Yakoub Halil, an Arab from Liftah who was accused of stabbing the Jewish boy Mizrachi in the football match clash which preceded the outbreak of August 1929, was acquitted to-day, the evidence against him being found insufficient. The principal witness for the Prosecution accused another Liftah Arab present in court as a spectator, of having been the man who had stabbed Mizrachi, and the court decided that it could not proceed with the case.
The Liftah Arabs carried the released man shoulder high when the decision of the court was announced.
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