South African authorities are investigating a bomb threat to the Cape Town Jewish community center that was sent from a phone line at the country’s Parliament, according to a local newspaper. Sources with South Africa’s Jewish Board of Deputies said a caller identification facility at the center showed that the Nov. 12 threat was made by an English-speaking male using the phone line of a fax machine at Parliament.
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