Jerusalem police said today they were, looking for a 15-year-old yeshiva student in connection with an arson attempt at a missionary printing shop in the Baka quarter. Residents of the building that houses the “Mt. Zion Reporter,” a missionary monthly, found the place partially burned yesterday. Kerosine had been poured in several places in the shop but the fire apparently extinguished itself before it could spread.
Police spokesman Avraham Turjeman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the Jewish Defense League was not suspected of setting this fire. Four JDL members and two yeshiva students were arrested last week on suspicion of setting fire to the International Center for the Holy Scriptures, a missionary center on the Mount of Olives.
Mayor Teddy Kollek told a City Council meeting that Premier Golda Meir was interested in finding legal or legislative means to curb the activities of Christian missionaries in Israel. The problem has been exacerbated, he said, by the appearance in Israel of the “Jews for Jesus” movement.
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