Four Rumanian Zionist leaders, who had been arrested am sentenced to lengthy prison terms by the Communist satellite regime, arrived in Israel today.
Bernard Rohrlich, a former chairman of the Rumanian Zionist executive; Heinrich Inger of the Mapai, who had been a member of the executive, Alexander Dascalu, a Hashomer Hatzair leader; and Edgar Kanner of Herut arrived on the S.S. Jerusalem with 212 other immigrants from Europe.
The four leaders were greeted by a large delegation of Mapam, Mapai and Herut representatives and Rumanian wish leaders now living in Israel.
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