Judgment was reserved by the Palestine High Court on the case instituted by a Tel-Aviv resident because a telegram in Hebrew characters was refused for transmission at the government post office.
The State attorney contended that the ordinance of 1920 expressly states that Hebrew telegrams must be written in Latin characters while the representative of the plaintiff argued that the ordinance was superseded by the Mandate which establishes that no discrimination be practiced. If Arab telegrams are accepted in Arabic characters while Hebrew telegrams are not accepted in Hebrew characters, then discrimination exists, the counsel declared.
It was on the complaint of the Tel-Aviv resident that the High Court decided to ask an explanation of the Post-master General, as Hebrew is one of the three official languages of the country.
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