The Jewish National Fund announced today that it will plant a Memorial Forest for Iraqi Martyrs in Israel. Herman L. Weisman, president, and Dr. Milton Aron, executive vice president, said the forest will memorialize the nine Iraqi Jews recently executed as Israeli spies by the Baghdad Government and serve as an “act of solidarity” with the remaining 2,500 Jews in that country.
The decision to plant the forest, the officials said, followed a “flood” of requests to JNF offices across the United States that trees be planted in memory of the nine men publically hanged in Baghdad and Basra.
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