Ha'aretz
A resident of the West Bank outpost Shvut Rachel was arrested last month for suspected murder and for his alleged role in a string of attempted murder plots, a gag order lifted on Sunday revealed.
Yaakov Teitel, 37, was is suspected of killing two Palestinians, for rigging the package bomb which left the child of a Messianic Jew seriously wounded, for attempting to kill left-wing professor Ze'ev Sternhell, and for his alleged role in a series of warning attacks against Israel Police at the time of the Gay Pride Parades.
Teitel, a resident of the northern West Bank outpost, was born in Florida and has moved back and forth between the United States and Israel over the last two decades. In 2000, he returned to Israel to live permanently.During a search of his home, police discovered rifles, handguns and explosive materials...
...Teitel has confessed to murdering a Palestinian shepherd near Mount Hebron in 1997. He is also suspected of killing a taxi driver in East Jerusalem some two months after that incident. He said that he came to Israel precisely to carry out attacks... Full story
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