Arab terrorists today shot and killed Leon Hatshishi, 45-year-old Turkish Jew, in a Haifa street. An Arab attack was launched on a Jewish children’s colony in Tel Aviv, but the marauders were routed before they could do damage. Near the northern frontier several were wounded when a land mine exploded under an armored police car.
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