This only all-Jewish city in the world today gave the first direct challenge to the new British policy in Palestine of restricting Jewish immigration by cheering the report from the Hadassah Hospital that a set of triplets had been born to a Jewish woman.
The Hebrew papers here are heralding the birth of this trio of babies as an eloquent reply to the British statement of policy. It is planned to name the babies after past and present Zionist leaders.
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