Free Republic

New mayor is a Fatah terrorist who killed 6 people in a 1980 terror attack, received a life sentence - and was freed during a prisoner swap. Terrorist Tiyassir Abu Sanina is expected to win Sunday's elections for Hevron mayor. Abu Sanina is a member of the same terror cell which carried out the May 1980 terror attack on Beit Hadassah, killing six people civilians and wounding twenty more. All of the terrorists who participated in the attack were given life sentences, but released during the prisoner swaps of the 1980s. Hevron Jewish Community Spokesman Noam Arnon said, "Choosing as...

Jewish worshipers who arrived at the Cave of Patriarchs in Hevron after Muslim prayers on Friday were horrified to find that the site had been vandalized. The Cave (known as Me’arat HaMakhpela in Hebrew) is usually split between Jewish and Muslim worshipers, but this past Friday it was open exclusively to Muslim worshipers in honor of Ramadan. But when the Jewish section of the site was reopened, worshipers were horrified to find widespread desecration. Two mezuzot—cases containing Jewish holy scriptures affixed to the doorpost—had been torn off and stolen, and a third was damaged. Muslim worshipers had also thrown mud...