Swerving to avoid an Arab boy, a Jewish police car today overturned near Lydda airport, killing one Jewish special policeman and injuring six others and a British constable. Yecheskel Ben Shalom, 27, an immigrant from Poland, was killed. Samuel Fraenkel and Ephraim Eisenstein were seriously injured.
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