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SNIPPET: "In March 2008, Alaa Abu Dheim infiltrated the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva (rabbinical seminary) in Jerusalem, spraying gunfire that murdered eight yeshiva students and wounded dozens of others. An Israel Defense Forces officer who arrived on the scene shot and killed the terrorist." SNIPPET: "Abu Dheim lived with his family at the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of east Jerusalem, together with his father, brothers, and sisters. Following the terror attack, a mourners' tent was set up at the terrorist's home, where Hamas and Hizbullah flags were raised, which helped the defense establishment identify the family with the terrorist." SNIPPET: "The court...

The vast majority of Palestinians support the terror attack on Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva that killed eight students earlier this month, according to a new poll cited in the New York Times on Wednesday. According to the poll, 84 percent of those surveyed stood behind the shooting attack. In addition, 64% supported the firing of Kassam rockets at Negev towns. "The anger that this poll is registering is about equal to that at the very height of the second intifada," the paper quoted the pollster, Khalil Shikaki, as saying. He added that he had never seen such a high level...