Forty-eight trees will be planted in the “Children’s Forest” near Jerusalem in honor of the 48 school children who were killed when a bomb from a Nazi plane demolished their school during the German raid on London last week. The funds to plant the trees were raised by the Zionist Boy Scout troops here.
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