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Jerusalem Orthodox Jews Demonstrate Against Consc

March 18, 1953
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A mass meeting was held today Shearim quarter of Jerusalem, inhabited chiefly by Orthodox Jews### conscription of women for national service. The demonstrators pre### Ark which was set up in the open and then shouted slogans, such as### Your Souls, Oppose Conscription.”

An unidentified person today threw an incendiary bomb into a b### the Knesset building which sells pork. A bystander quickly exting### and prevented damage to the shop. The same shop had been attack### and the owner’s automobile burned up by religious extremists. The Levi, testified for the prosecution in a recent trial of religious extremists with burning cars used on Saturdays.

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