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Palestine Post bombing
Mordechai Chertoff was the foreign editor on the Palestine Post (precursor to the Jerusalem Post) when it was bombed on 1 February 1948.
Mordechai Chertoff was the foreign editor on the Palestine Post (precursor to the Jerusalem Post) when it was bombed on 1 February 1948.
He tells Lucy Williamson how, despite the attack, the newspaper still came out the next morning.
This programme was first broadcast in 2010.
(Photo: Palestine Post bombing. Credit: Getty Images)
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