JEWISH IMMIGRANTS REACH HAIFA AFTER TWO DAYS ON RAFT
Rec. 9 p.m. TEL-AVIV, May 24. Twenty-three exhausted Jewish immigrants, who were rescued to-day after being adrift for two days on the open sea, declared that they had been thrown off their ship. The Jews chartered a ship, each paying £SO to the captain, to take tnem to Israel. After two days at sea the captain told the Jews he could not take them to Israel as he did not wish to approach the coast. The crew of the ship lowered the Jews on to a raft constructed of a few wooden planks and barrels tied together. The immigrants spent two days without food and water before reaching the coast near Haifa. They said five other pepple had been on the raft but they feared they had been drowned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27090, 26 May 1949, Page 7
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138JEWISH IMMIGRANTS REACH HAIFA AFTER TWO DAYS ON RAFT Otago Daily Times, Issue 27090, 26 May 1949, Page 7
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