Another Jew was added to the mounting death toll today when Samuel Shimshoni succumbed to wounds received yesterday in an attack in Haifa. Meanwhile, a Sephardic Jew, Machluf Hadad, 55, was shot and dangerously wuonded today by three Arabs who entered his shop in the Old City quarter of Tiberias.
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