![]() ![]() In Hebron, Arabs who were friends of the Jews reported that messengers of the Mufti had been in the city and had preached in the mosque near the Cave of Machpelah that the Jews had attacked Arabs in Jerusalem and desecrated their mosques. The novel tells the story of David Lurie, an Orthodox Jewish boy from the Bronx growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930s up to the revealing of the fate of the Lurie family's relatives in Poland at the end of World War II. The Arabs began coming into Jerusalem from all over the country. Tools In the Beginning is the 1975 fourth novel by Chaim Potok. Then the Mufti of Jerusalem spread the rumor that the Jews were ready to capture and desecrate the holy mosques on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The day after the demonstration, on Tisha B’av, a group of Arabs beat up Jews gathered at the Wall for prayers, and then burned copies of the Book of Psalms which were left lying nearby. ![]() They announced that they washed their hands of the Jews as a result of this demonstration, and the Arabs took the hint. But we knew all about the British, he said. ![]() The British said these had been in reaction to the demonstration staged by the followers of Jabotinsky at the Western Wall protesting new British regulations that interfered with Jewish religious services at the Wall. “On the fifteenth of August, Tisha B’av, there had been Arab disturbances in Jerusalem. ![]()
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