Jews of this city proclaimed a strike today against Arab terrorism after two Jews had been killed in the capital and in Basra.
David Judah Azir, 50 years old, was slain near a mosque on Main Street by an Arab mob. Twenty thousand persons attended his funeral. George Chalif, 30 years old, was stabbed fatally in Basra.
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