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SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
JULY 19, 1985
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The highly publicized
Jewish terrorist trial ended
last week as three
Jerusalem judges handed
down 15 convictions.
Jerusalem (JTA) — Guilty ver-
dicts were handed down by a
Jerusalem district court last week on
15 Jewish 'defendants from the West
Bank charged with a series of violent
acts against Arab civilians and mem-
bership in a Jewish underground ter-
rorist organization. Sentencing was
scheduled for this week.
The three-judge panel found al-
leged ringleader Menachem Livni,
Shaul Nir and Uzi Sharbaf guilty of
murder and attempted murder in con-
nection with the 1983 machinegun
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and grenade attack on the Islamic Col-
- --' lege in Hebron in which three Palesti-
nian students were killed. Two other
defendants, Yitzhak Ganiram and
Barak Nir, were convicted of at-
tempted murder and manslaughter for
Jewish underground leader Menachem
Livni confers with his wife during the
terrorist trial.
their part in the attack.
The verdicts, rendered 13 months
after the trial began, ended one of the
most controversial legal proceedings
in Israel's history. The defendants, all
Orthodox Jews, including Gush
Emunim militants, had strong support
from' religious and rightwing
nationalist elements in Israel and
among Jews abroad.
They claimed that whatever ac-
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Women's Conference:
Unpredictable Agenda
Will the U: N. gathering in
Nairobi focus on feminist
issues or Israel
condemnations?
focus on "women's issues" and avoid
politics.
During preliminary meetings, the
U.S. delegation demanded that all con-
ference resolutions be adopted by
"consensus" rather than by simple
Islitobi, Kenya — American majority vote. This tactic would effec-
delegates to the United Nations tively curtail anti-Israel moves on the
Women's Decade Conference, which part of Arab and Third World coun-
began in Nairobi this week, have been tries attending the gathering.
criticized for trying to head off con-
Meanwhile, a pre-conference
demnations of Israel and for attempts meeting of a group known as the
to prevent Third World nations from Non-Governmental Organizations
dominating the proceedings.
(NGO) held in Nairobi last week fea-
But the U.S. delegation, which is tured a number of heated political ex-
headed by President Reagan's daugh- changes.
ter, Maureen, insists its concerns are
' Israeli Labor Party Knesset
legitimate in light of the two previous member. Tamar Eshel led approx-
UN-sponsored women's gatherings. imately 40 women from Israel at the
Those meetings, held in 1975 and (NGO) gathering.
1980, were largely pro-Palestinian
At a meeting in the Nairobi
and anti-Israel in tone, according to . Synagogue Community Center, 200
most observers. Maureen Reagan said Jewish women and a handful of men
this week that the conference should Continued on Page 25