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Colonist Slain in Arab Attack

June 9, 1938
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Arab terrorists today ambushed a party of Rosh Pina settlers and special policemen fighting an incendiary blaze that threatened several acres of wheat. They shot and killed Israel Lieberman, 21, Lieberman, who came to Palestine from Poland two years ago, was a member of the Betar, militant Zionist Revisionist youth organization.

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