(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Sixteen Jewish immigrants who were arrested on the frontier near Metulah in their attempt to cross the border into Palestine without proper visas will be deported, according to a court sentence.
The group came from the Mosul district, whence they fled because of religious persecutions.
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