Isaac Abbadis, 50-year-old Jewish fishmonger of Jaffa, was acquitted of the charge of wounding with intent to murder six Arabs on the day of the riots. Abbadis was acquitted by Judge Plunkett, sitting in the Jaffa Court.
Declining to hear the summing up of the case by the prosecution and the defense, the judge declared that the testimony of the state’s witnesses was conflicting and unreliable. Both the prosecution and the defense counsel are Jews, the prosecutor being Government Advocate Bardaky and the defense attorney Dunkelblum.
This is the first case of a Jew having been tried for murder in the trials growing out of the recent Palestine outbreak.
Abbadis, a native of Jaffa, is known as a peaceful, law-abiding citizen, and his acquittal was hailed.
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