A bomb blast at the Sephardi Yeshurun synagogue yesterday morning caused considerable damage to the building but no one was present in the synagogue at the time, police reported today. The explosion shattered windows, cracked walls and broke the main entrance door. Neighbors said the bomb had been placed by several men who fled in a car.
The DAIA, the central agency for Argentine Jewry, declared in a cable to Interior Minister Benito Llambi, that the explosion was the culmination of a recent anti-Semitic campaign, linked to the actions of “foreign groups endowed with enormous economic resources, who try to transfer to our country the problems of the Near East, disturbing the process of national development.” The reference was understood to be to Arab groups in Argentina.
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