Mordecai Iwri, a leader of the Left Poale Zion, Zionist labor party, was shot and killed yesterday by an unknown person who has not yet been found. The murderer before shooting Iwri also robbed him. Iwri, who was a member of the municipal council of Chelm, recently returned from Palestine.
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