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In 1972 the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported that recipients of letter bombs in the UK including those listed in the ''Zionist Year Book'':
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In 1972 the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported that recipients of letter bombs in the UK included those listed in the ''Zionist Year Book'':
  
 
:British Home Secretary [[Robert Carr|Carr]]... says 19 letters with explosive devices have been sent to Jews and Jewish-owned businesses since Nov 10; British police suspect that Arab terrorist [[Black September]] organisation is involved in letter-bomb threat; letters and parcels were addressed to Jews who had signed pro-Israel ads or had listed their companies in ''Zionist Yearbook''; Scotland Yard Commander [[Robert Mark]] warns that bombs could turn up in parcels as well as letters<ref>''NEW YORK TIMES'' November 14, 1972, Tuesday Page 9, Column 1
 
:British Home Secretary [[Robert Carr|Carr]]... says 19 letters with explosive devices have been sent to Jews and Jewish-owned businesses since Nov 10; British police suspect that Arab terrorist [[Black September]] organisation is involved in letter-bomb threat; letters and parcels were addressed to Jews who had signed pro-Israel ads or had listed their companies in ''Zionist Yearbook''; Scotland Yard Commander [[Robert Mark]] warns that bombs could turn up in parcels as well as letters<ref>''NEW YORK TIMES'' November 14, 1972, Tuesday Page 9, Column 1

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The Zionist Year Book, was produced by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland from October 1951 to 1988.[1][2] The first editor was Arthur Saul Super, who at that stage was also the editor of the Zionist Review.[3]

Letter bombs

In 1972 the New York Times reported that recipients of letter bombs in the UK included those listed in the Zionist Year Book:

British Home Secretary Carr... says 19 letters with explosive devices have been sent to Jews and Jewish-owned businesses since Nov 10; British police suspect that Arab terrorist Black September organisation is involved in letter-bomb threat; letters and parcels were addressed to Jews who had signed pro-Israel ads or had listed their companies in Zionist Yearbook; Scotland Yard Commander Robert Mark warns that bombs could turn up in parcels as well as letters[4]

Editors

Notes

  1. 'Britain' American Jewish Yearbook 1953, p. 238
  2. University of Cambridge Zionist Year Book, Newton Library Catalogue.
  3. Zionist Review, 3 August 1951, p. 8
  4. NEW YORK TIMES November 14, 1972, Tuesday Page 9, Column 1
  5. Jane Moonman, ‘Letter: Medical Care and Military Occupation’, The Lancet, Volume 2, Issue 8516, pp.1160-1160, 15 November 1986