A devastating hail storm has destroyed more than three-quarters of the crops of the only Bulgarian Chalutz colony, located near the south Bulgarian city of T.-Pazardschik. Twenty chalutzim were being trained there for future farm work in Palestine.
The damage wrought by the hail storm to the chalutz colony is estimated at around 100,000 leva.
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