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The press conference with the fasters. The speaker: Chairman of the Jewish National Council David Remez
On Wednesday, April 17, the employees of the National Institutions Building had worked for many hours on cleaning the building and returning its normal functions. This drama, whereby the building was the beating heart of an unprecedented event of a mass hunger strike of the leaders of the Yishuv, had come to an end.
Another drama that was no less great, would begin there after less than two and half months, in late June 1946.
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