Two more letter bombs were found in Israeli post offices today, bringing to ten the number of booby-trapped letters discovered during the past 24 hours. All were mailed from Istanbul, Turkey. The first of today’s letter bombs was found in the sorting room at the Haifa post office this morning. The second turned up at Kibbutz Kfar Blon in Upper Galilee, addressed to the fodder factory there. It carried no return address. Both suspected letters were turned over to police who confirmed their explosive content and dismantled them safely.
The first of yesterday’s letter bombs was discovered by a veteran mail sorter in the Migdal Haemek post office; it was disclosed today. The suspicious envelope was turned over to police who issued a country-wide alarm when it was found to contain explosives. Some of the letter bombs were addressed to widely known addresses, such as that of Prof. Yuval Neeman, president of Tel Aviv University and the Begged-Or leather goods factory in Migdal Haemek.
But police were puzzled by one of the lethal letters addressed to Dr. Amos Kedar, a physician who moved only recently to Kibbutz Mizra in the Jezreel Valley. His address is not even listed in the telephone directory. Authorities speculated that it may have been passed on to the mailer by a foreign volunteer at the kibbutz.
Police received a flood of calls from frightened Israelis today who found heavy envelopes from Amsterdam in their morning mail. The envelopes turned out to contain circulars and subscription renewal cards from the European office of the New York Times.
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