Times Herald · 26 December 1946
CP-1946-006
Palestine Arab Landowner Slain
Had Sold Thousands Of Acres to Jews
United Press, Jerusalem
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Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM, Palestine, Dec. 25 (UP)—Christmas Day assassins, believed to be members of the secret Arab army, shot and killed another wealthy Arab landowner, Emir Mohammed el Saleh, in full daylight in Haifa today amid a 24-hour Holy Land celebration of the birth of Christ.
El Saleh, millionaire property owner who had sold thousands of acres to the Jewish National Fund for the establishment of Jewish settlements, was killed by assailants firing from a taxicab.
Among land sold to Jews were the tracts on which the Jewish National Fund established the Tel Joseph, Ein Herod and other settlements in the Beisan area of northern Palestine near the Sea of Gallilee.”
Context added by this archive
The land question from the other direction, and the landowner is named.
Cite this clipping
"Palestine Arab Landowner Slain," Times Herald, 26 December 1946, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1946-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1946-006
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