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Palestinian Authority resident terrorist Wael Salaman Mohammed el-Arjeh, of Hevron, has been convicted of two counts of murder in the deaths of Asher and Yonatan Palmer. He will be sentenced in the upcoming days. Arjeh is facing life in prison. Arjeh took part in an attack in which large stones were hurled at the Palmers’ car. A stone hit Asher Palmer, who was driving, in the face. The injured Palmer lost control of the car, possibly after losing consciousness, resulting in a crash in which both he and baby Yonatan were killed. Yonatan was two days shy of his first...

Tramping from Kiryat Arba to Hebron today, my ride told me that every Friday morning at 9:30 a.m., near the entrance to Kiryat Arba, and at the shoulder of Highway 60 across from the Delek gas station, adjacent to which Asher Palmer's car was overturned by an Arab terrorist's murderous attack, there will be a Torah class (I believe in English). The IDF will be present and attending to security. All interested parties who are here in Israel are invited to attend.

Natan Yonatan - Obituary JERUSALEM (AP) - Natan Yonatan, an Israeli poet who won several Israeli literary awards with works that wove together themes of nature and war, died Friday near Tel Aviv. He was 81. Yonatan won the Newman Prize for Hebrew Literature in 2001. His 20 books of poetry have been translated into several languages, including English, Russian and Spanish. In one of his best-known poems, "That Man," Yonatan eulogized Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by an ultranationalist Jew in 1995. Yonatan was born in 1923 in Kiev, Ukraine, and immigrated to Israel at age two...