A rabbi was shot to death and another Jew was wounded today by a local Arab in the Jewish quarter of Tunis. The shootings were linked to an ultra-religious Moslem organization, the Tunisian Association to Safeguard the Koran, which issued an appeal to all Moslems yesterday to “fight for the liberation of the holy places in Jerusalem and the stolen territories.” According to reports from Tunis the assailant may be mentally unbalanced. The shooting was also linked to the absence of President Habib Bourguiba, of Tunis, a moderate, who is currently undergoing medical treatment at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, (In London today, Chief Rabbi Emanuel Jakobovits called on all rabbis to recite memorial prayers on Jan. 27, the second anniversary of the hanging of nine Jews in Iraq.)
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