For blowing the Shofar, (ram’s horn), at the Wailing Wall on Yom Kippur, Sharga Haikin, a
Zionist Revisionist, was today sentenced to three months in jail.
Haikin is a new immigrant, having recently come from Kaunaus, Lithuania.
Jews were forbidden to blow the Shofar at the Wall following the Arab riots of 1929.
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