Alexander Yakob, Deputy Minister of Finance of Rumania and a Jew, has committed suicide, the afternoon press reported here today. The story was based on information reaching Yakob’s relatives in Israel.
The newspapers also reported that two more prominent Jews in Rumania have been removed from party office in the latest Communist Party political purge. They are Bercu Feldman, member of the Rumanian Communist Politburo and chairman of the Jewish Democratic Committee, and Sherban Leibovitz of the Hashomer Hatzair.
A Yugoslav News Agency report quoted by the press here today asserts that Rumania’s second deputy Foreign Minister Anna Toma, a close associate of Anna Pauker and like her a Jew, is missing and believed to be under arrest.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman today told newsmen that the Israel Government has received no official word from the Rumanian Government on the stoppage of immigration from that country. But, he added, the facts “appear to be serious.”
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