For Israelis, the arrest of the eminent Dr. Israel Beer as a Communist spy just when they were trying to focus everyone's attention on the Eichmann trial was bad enough. But last week they learned that Dr. Beer was not the man they thought he was, and, furthermore, never had been.
Nearly every statement Beer had made about himself during the 23 years he had spent in Palestine and Israel was found to be untrue. He claimed to have been born in Vienna and to be one of the few Jews ever to graduate...
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