to sell part of their property to non-residents. Any Arab possessing less than 200 dunams will not have the right to dispose of his estate or any part of it.
After the seventeenth century sack of K’ai Fong Foo, city in China, the Jews took refuge on the north side of the river after retrieving a scroll of the law that had been thrown into the river.
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