Rosenwasser Released in Exchange for Terrorist
TEL AVIV (JTA) â Shmuel life imprisonment came about after enemy hands and this could not be
Rosenwasser, 52-year-old Israeli the death sentence was pronounced prevented.
watchman who was kidnaped by and Hidjazi agreed to cooperate
Minister of Religious Affairs
terrorists from his post at Metul- with the authorities in exchange
Zerach Warhaftig, however, took
lah on New Year's Eve, 1969, to for a second trial.
the view that It was in the Jewish
spend 424 days in captivity, napped
Sharp differences appeared in
tradition to "redeem captives"
by terrorists from his post at the cabinet when the government
and his pleading apparently
Metullah on New Year's Eve, 1969, was asked to approve the pris-
moved
a majority of the cabinet
spend 424 days in captivity, was oner exchange for the release of
to approve the "deal."
returned to Israel last Friday, tired
Rosenwasser.
The modest Rosenwasser home
and bedraggled but delighted to be
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, near Haifa was jammed with well-
reunited with his family.
Transport Minister Shimon Peres wishers and flowers as hundreds of
Rosenwasser was released by his and Police Minister Shlomo Hillel people came to greet Rosenwasser
captors in exchange for a notor- reportedly thought the price de- after his 14-month captivity. Their
ious terrorist. Mahmoud Hidjazi, manded for Rosenwasser's freedom teen-age daughter, Ounika, went to
who was serving a life sentence
too high. But they were out- school as usual and later distrib-
in an Israeli prison and who had voted
voted by a majority of their cabi- uted some of the flowers they re-
originally been sentenced to death. net colleagues.
ceived to neighbors.
The prisoner exchange was ef-
Sources here indicated that 10
Sources disclosed that Rosen-
fected at the Lebanese border post
Lebanese
soldiers captured in an
could have been freed much
of Ras el Nikura under the aus- wasser
Israeli
raid shortly after the Rosen-
pices of the International Red sooner bad Israel agreed to El wasser kidnaping may soon be re-
Fatah demands to negotiate through
Cross.
the Red Crescent and to free sev- turned to Lebanon. The soldiers
Rosenwasser, who had been eral
dozen terrorists in exchange are being held as prisoners of war.
moved
fr or J dun
tl y to a Israel
om
recen
offered to release only one
guerrilla encampmea near Da- terrorist and insisted on negotiat-
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But even that offer was opposed
Lebanon. _The Israeli was taken to by Dayan, Peres and Hillel on
a police ⢠station for a medical grounds that any exchange with
check7up and was then taken home the kidnapers would look like a
to his wife and daughter who now surrender and could lead to more
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the conditions of his imprisonment individuals were likely to fall into
and that all he wanted now was
to rest and be with his family.
Rosenwasser's release followed
prolonged negotiations d u r i n g
which the terrorists insisted that
. Israel negotiate directly with them
through the Arab Red Crescent. Is-
rael maintained that it would deal
only with the authorities in Leb-
anon where Rosenwasser was tak-
en initially by his captors before
being moved to Jordan. Israel also
insisted that it would only nego-
tiate through the Red Cross.
The first inkling that a "deal"
was in the offing came last week
when Israeli authorities advised
Rosenwasser's wife and teen-age
daughter to postpone a trip to the
United States, where they planned
to seek public support for Rosen-
wasser's release.
Freedom for the Hungarian-born
Rosenwasser was purchased at a
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high price. Hidjazi, who was
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wounded and captured by Israelis
in 1965, was considered one of the
one minute, giving savings advice at the front
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the first terrorist ever sentenced
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Rosenwasser's Sister Moved by Glad News
Shmuel Rosenwasser's sister, through the United Nations in Ros-
Mrs. Herman (Helen) Greenber- enwasser's behalf.
ger, who resides in Detroit on W.
Eight Mile Rd., was moved to
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