After waiting eight years for a certificate permitting him tk go to Palestine as a pioneer worker, Josef Urbach, 26, well-known in Lowicz Hechalutz circles, today committed suicide for lack of 150 zlotys, less than thirty dollars, the sum necessary to pay his fare to Palestine.
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