WORST BOMB OUTRAGE SINCE KING DAVID HOTEL
Reeeived Supday, 11.0 p.m. "jfERUSAL^l, February 22. A heavy explqsioia in, the e$?ly: o"tfii& rporpiiig wrecked • the Histadruth iniilding- wiaich houses the (teneral Fedei'ation oi' Jewish Labour, in Ihe heart oJ'; th'e'JeAv.ish area oi' Jerusalem. • Thc explosion turned l|ie cei.\tral' modern Jewish business and J >• , resklential centre oi Ben Yehuda Street into a shambles. llalf a doy.en rnoderp buildings- were deipolished and debris blocked several ktreoLs. Resciie squads are diggipg l-everfshly among thc, ruins for thc Imried victims. The Atlantic Ilote.l is a'mong thc buildings which 110 longer cxist. The explosion shook the entire- city, broke windows a mile distant and shook many people i'cmn .theiv bcds. The Jewish ( hyil ( iuards have elqscd thc vvhole dis.tii,ict.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 February 1948, Page 5
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