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Once a week in the evening we went to the Mahane Yehuda police station, where each of us was given a rifle, ammunition, and some sort of makeshift uniform, and then, thus equipped, marched to a house facing the
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further east on Jaffa Road. Others aver that the statues were imported by a
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from the direction of the Old City. The site, on the south side of the street, was chosen because it was adjacent to a
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