For the second night in succession, a Histadrut Cultural Center was burned down last night, this time in Kiryat Onno. Police, suspecting saboteurs and arsonists, have stepped up their efforts to track down the perpetrators.
The first outrage took place Sunday night at Migdal Haemek, where one of the recent riots by North African immigrants was staged last month. Both cultural centers, at Kiryat Onno and at Migdal Haemek, were totally destroyed. Special investigation teams spread out over the country today, in strenuous police efforts to find not only the saboteurs but to locate also the center and guiding hands of the various incidents.
Meanwhile, a delegation of women from the North African immigrant quarter of Wadi Salib, in Haifa, met today with the Haifa chief of police, demanding that all of the 70 men arrested as a result of the Haifa riots be released. The women demanded also that police cease their night raids against the homes of suspects.
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