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AVIVA BAR-AM
Jerusalem Post
08-02-2007
Headline: Going underground
Byline: AVIVA BAR-AM
Edition; Weekend
Section: Features
Page: 04

Thursday, August 2, 2007 -- One Friday evening in 1946, British guards carrying out Binyamin Kimhi's sentence dragged the 16-year-old from his cell in Jerusalem's Central Prison and lashed him 18 times.

But instead of flogging him in the exercise yard in front of the other inmates, prison authorities thrashed him in private. This in the futile hope that they could keep it secret: Palestine's Jews were already enraged that young Kimhi had been condemned to 18 long ...