The fire is said to have started in a nearby factory, and residents reported a large cloud of smoke rising from the area.

Tito Haganah men "who failed to return" were 21-year-old Heyim Bendor, son of the Jerusalem correspondent of the newspaper Davar, and Yochanan Zelinger, a former member of the Jewish Brigade.

Train traffic was stopped from Tel Aviv's Haganah station to the Savidor station on Wednesday after police stopped and identified a suspect near the train tracks, police said in a statement.

Reports from northern Palestine tonight said that the Haganah had blown up bridge linking Syria to Palestine, following new attacks on Jewish settlements in upper Galilee. Arab snipers renewed ...