The Jewish Agency is reconsidering the question of participating in the London conferences, it was learned today. The decision will be taken by the Jewish Agency Executive in London after consultation with Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. Opposition to participation
in the parleys has been crystallizing among parties and sections of the Palestine Jews, largely as a result of the British Government’s refusal to sanction the admission of 10,000 refugee children.
A Moslem religious functionary and two Jews were added to the death toll over the weekend. Said el Hammad el Hak, guardian of the Mosque of Omar, was shot dead today in Jerusalem’s Old City quarter, which was immediately placed under 24-hour curfew by the authorities. A prominent Sephardic merchant, Bechor Marash, 63, was shot dead in Jerusalem’s central business district, near army headquarters, earlier in the day. Yesterday, Eliahu Mizrachi, 21, was ambushed and killed while driving near the Jewish colony of Ein Gev on the eastern shore of Lake Tiberias.
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