Acting on the proposal of Dr. Wolfgang von Weisl on behalf of the suspended Hebrew newspaper, Doar Hayom, Issa Elissa, publisher of the Arab paper, Falastin, today agreed to a joint Arab-Jewish publishers conference regarding the government’s press restrictions and especially the pending press law.
The Doar Hayom and the Falastin were both recently suspended for printing inciting news reports.
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