Etzel Collection, Altalena Affair, Five Detainees in Beit Shean Prison - Newspaper Items (August - November 1948)
21.06.1948 - 27.08.1948
Reference Code : K 4 - 20/ 28
Archive:
Etzel Collection
Material status:
Scanned
Date Type:
Approximate
Attachments
k4\4\110280.pdf
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Description
Newspaper items on the following topics:
legal developments in case of five detainees in Beit Shean Prison; trial concerning Hillel Kook and Yaakov Meridor; threats by the five to stage a hunger strike; criticism of British emergency laws in force in Eretz Israel;
High Court verdict that arrest of the five was legal; release of the five and their versions of circumstances of their arrest.

