Hershel Pinsky, a Jewish labor leader in Palestine, was found drowned today when the flood subsided in the neighborhood of Kfar Baruch. He is the first known Jewish victim of the catastrophe.
Railway communication between Jerusalem and Haifa was reestablished today as result of the government action to bring the territory devastated by the flood back to normalcy.
However, roads in many sections of the country are still under water because of the flood, which swept the country during the last several days.
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