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t is a scandal that nobody
wants. It has cast a lurid shad-
ow over Israel's security ser-
vices. It has embarrassed both
Labor and Likud. It is 12 years old.
But now resurrected, it won't go
away. And the whistle-blower was
a pillar of the Shin Bet, a hard man
with the highest of connections.
Ehud Yatom, a senior officer in
the internal security service, con-
fessed in the mass-circulation
Yediot Aharorwt daily last week-
end to the cold blooded execution
of two Palestinian bus hijackers
after they were captured in April,
1984. He also admitted that he
systematically lied to two com-
missions of inquiry into the inci-
dent — and tried to frame Yitzhak
Mordechai, a brigadier-general
who is now Binyamin Ne-
tanyahu's Defense Minister.
The two youths, the cousins
Subhi and Majdi Abu-lama, were
among four Palestinians who
seized an Israeli bus and forced
the driver to take them to Gaza.
After a 10-hour chase and stand-
off, Israeli troops stormed the bus,
killing two hijackers and captur-
ing two others. A woman hostage
died in the cross fire.
A news photographer, Alex Lev-
ac, snapped the two prisoners be-
ing led away. They were later said
to have died of their wounds on the
way to hospital. The photograph
was censored, but when the evi-
dence was finally published and
the case investigated two years lat-
er, then-Attorney-General Yitzhak
Zamir (now a Supreme Court jus-
tice), recommended prosecuting
11 Shin Bet officers.
At then-Prime Minister Shi-
mon Peres' instigation, then-Pres-
ident Chaim Herzog granted
them imrniinitv before they were
brought to Gourt. Most of the offi-

cers were forced to resign, but
Ehud Yatom, the known execu-
tioner, was subsequently pro-
moted to the second highest rank
in the service.
In the Yediot interview, the 48-
year-old Yatom, on retirement
leave, boasted that he killed the
two hijackers on the orders of
then-Shin Bet commander, Avra-
ham Shalom.
'1 smashed their skulls in with
a huge rock," he said. "I am proud
of what I did."
Asked if he felt any regret, he
replied: "The regret was not be-
cause we killed them, but because
we did not see the press recording
it."
That's no longer the case and the
gory details of the story are now
out. As it goes, the two terrorists
were arrested by army comman-
dos, led by Mr. Mordechai, who
was chief paratroop and infantry
officer. Mr. Mordechai, who feared
they had planted an explosive
briefcase on the hijacked bus, is al-
leged to have pistol-whipped them
senseless to extract information
before the bomb could go off.
They were then handed over to
the Shin Bet, who killed them in
a closed van. In the subsequent
investigation, Mr. Yatom and his
colleagues attempted to pin the
killings on Mr. Mordechai. Yatom
still insists that the general was
not blameless.
"He did things in uniform that
he should not have done. He hit
them terrible blows with the stock
of his revolver."
Mr. Yatom claimed that the hi-
jackers were like two sacks of
potatoes when the Shin Bet re-
ceived them. At least one, he said,
would probably have died from
the beating.

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