Israeli police this morning scrubbed away swastikas that unknown persons daubed on the walls of houses in the German agricultural farm at Benyamina during the night. Police said the Germans did not file a complaint. The farm is owned by Beth El, a German religious sect headed by Emma Bergner, which is regarded as a missionary movement. The sect has been buying property in Israel. Police were alerted to the daubings by anonymous telephone calls to newspapers saying that the swastikas were to remind the Germans of the holocaust on Israel’s memorial day for the Jewish victims of Nazism.
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