The first death arising from the reaction to the Palestine land ordinance was recorded here today.
The victim was Menachem Prives, 18-year-old student of the Mizrachi Teachers’ College. He was injured in Saturday’s demonstrations against the measure which restricts sale of land to Jews.
Hebrew University students today demonstrated outside the American consulate and presented to Consul-General George Wadsworth a memorandum appealing to the United States Government to intervene against the Palestine land ordinance.
A military court sentenced Isaac Spiegelman, correspondent of the New York Jewish Daily Forward, to six months in prison for organizing a women’s demonstration of protest against the new ordinance restricting Jews in the purchase of land. Spiegelman, who has represented the Forward for 20 years, fought with the Jewish Legion which helped General Allenby wrest Palestine from Turkey in the World War. He is a reporter for Davar, Hebrew Laborite daily.
An appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury to do his “utmost to remove a crying wrong,” the Palestine land ordinance, was dispatched yesterday by Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog following his arrival by plane from a visit to England. Dr. Herzog termed the ordinance, which restricts Jewish land purchase in Palestine, “a terrible blow to Israel, denying us equal rights, dooming us to a ghetto in the land divinely promised to Israel, and vitiating the Biblical prophecy.”
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