Ben Zion Hartman, local correspondent of the newspaper Herut who confessed at his trial that he was guilty of carrying a time bomb into the port area where German reparations goods were being unloaded, was sentenced today to 18 months’ imprisonment. He will serve his sentence in a labor camp.
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