One Jewish child, Isaac Allal, was today found alive in the wreckage of a Dutch DC-3 transport plane which crashed some 30 miles west of this city Sunday, it was announced here.
The child was immediately rushed to a hospital for treatment. Twenty-six persons are known to have been killed and the fate of sight is still in doubt. The plane carried 29 children, two nurses and a crew of four. The children were coming from Morocco for eight months of medical treatment and instruction prior to their eventual immigration to Israel. The project, of which they were one part, is maintained by the Youth Aliyah movement.
The plane, chartered by the Joint Distribution Committee, crashed in a rugged forest area and the explosion which resulted was heard some distance away. It is for this reason that the major search effort was concentrated in this sector. In all some 2,200 soldiers, policemen, airmen and civilians were engaged in the two-day hunt. Planes from the air forces of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland participated.
(Members of the executive committee of the J.D.C. today offered a prayer for the children who perished in the wreck and appealed for continued aid to be made available to “tens of thousands of needy Jewish children still in North African slums, in distressed areas of Europe and in Israel.” Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, J.D.C. vice-chairman, led the prayer at a meeting of the executive committee this afternoon at the Hotel Commodore.)
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