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American Girl Leaps to Death in Jerusalem

May 6, 1935
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Leah Dowber, an American girl, daughter of a leading member of the American Mizrachi, the orthodox Zionist Organization, committed suicide this morning by leaping from the fifth floor of a building here.

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