Rehovot in March 1948 News Archive

...A police source in Jerusalem said it had reports the 24 Jews were taken by soldiers from a spirits factory at Mikve Israel and released in all-Arab Jaffa. Lt. Gen. G. H. A. MacMillan, commander of British forces m Palestine, said three mines shattered the wooden troop cars near Rehovot 15. miles southeast Tel Aviv. They were jammed with soldiers returning from leave in Cairo. MacMillan said a fourth mine failed to go off. Had it exploded, he said, the toll might have been 50 or more...

Source: The Atchison Daily Globe (Monday, March 01, 1948) [FullText (charges apply)]