An echo of an internationally famous episode in the Arab-Jewish disorders of 1938 was heard in Palestine today with the release of a Jewish youth who had been sentenced for participating in an attack on an Arab bus.
The youth, Sholom Sorabin , was a friend of Shlomo Ben Joseph, 25-year-old Revisionist who was hanged at Acre prison on June 29, 1938, for the same attack. Sorabin, 18 at the time, was declared insane and committed to an institution.
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