Bandaged Jews, who said they were attacked and beaten up by Arab rioters in Baghdad, arrived here last night in planes of the Baghdad-Lydda airlift. Several children, bearing the marks of recent injuries, were also among the passengers brought to Israel last night. Members of the group said the children had been injured in anti-Jewish disorders in the town of Akara in northern Iraq.
The new arrivals reported that Jews remaining in Iraq were observing the Feast of Esther, traditionally a day of rejoicing over the escape of the Jews from Haman, as a day of fast. They said that the Jews in Baghdad were pinning their hopes for an abatement of the situation on the return to the Iraqi capital of the Regent.
In Tel Aviv, the executive of the Histadrut adopted a protest against the “regime of terror and robbery which the Government of Iraq has imposed on the Jews of Babylon.” The resolution promised the utmost efforts of the Histadrut for the immigration and absorption of the Iraqi Jews.
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