Teen Victim Of bus Attack Dies r rot_ Two Palestinians Teens Jailed In Fogel Murders Amjad Mohammad Awad, left, and Hakim Mazen Awad JERUSALEM (JTA) T wo teenage Palestinians from a West Bank village have been arrested in the murders of five members of the Fogel family in a West Bank Jewish settlement. The Israeli military announced Sunday that Israeli security services — including the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet security service and police — were involved in the arrest of the teens from the nearby village of Awarta in connection with the bru- tal March 11 murders in Itamar on Sabbath eve. Amjad Awad, 19, who worked as a laborer in Israel, and Hakim Awad, 18, a high school student, reportedly admitted to committing the murders. They also staged a reconstruction of the crime, the French news agency AFP reported, citing a Shin Bet briefing document. Amjad Awad, who is not related to Hakim, report- edly said that he went to the Itamar settlement to "die a martyr's death." The suspects have been identified as members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as are several members of their families, some of whom were arrested as accomplices, though Israeli security services suspect the alleged murderers did not act on behalf of the terrorist organization. Dozens of residents of Awarta had been detained FBI: JDL Extorted Money From Rappers WASHINGTON (JTA) — FBI records say the agency believed the Jewish Defense League extorted money from rappers by threatening violence. The JDL has been "extorting money from various rap music stars via death threats," according to a report in Haaretz on the release of FBI files surrounding the unsolved 1996 mur- Tupac Shakur der of Tupac Shakur. The JDL is not other- wise linked to Shakur's murder in the files. Another JDL target was rapper Eazy-E, according to the documents, which alleged that the JDL would follow-up death threats with demands for protec- tion money. by Israeli security services in recent weeks in an effort to identify the Fogels' murderers. "The murders of five family members, includ- ing a 3-month-old baby, constitute a crossing of all red lines:' said IDF spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich."The IDF has invested in numerous operational and intelligence efforts, and has worked closely with other security forces in order to find those responsible for this vicious murder." Udi Fogel, 36, and Ruth Fogel, 35, and their chil- dren Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months, were stabbed to death in their beds. Two sons — Roi, 8, and Yishai, 2 — were sleeping in a side bedroom and were spared. A daughter, Tamar, 12, returned home at midnight from a youth group program to discover the massacre. The family had been evacuated from the Gaza Strip and lived in Ariel before building a home in the northern West Bank community of Itamar, near the Palestinian city of Nablus. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday in public remarks that he had been updated in recent weeks and days on the progress of the investigation. "For the family, this is not a complete answer, but without it they could not be given even a partial answer': he said, adding, "We will reach murderers anywhere!' I 1 The JDL was founded in the late 1960s by Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was assassinated in 1990 by an Egyptian terrorist in New York. It has been desig- nated a terrorist grouip by the U.S. State Department. Agriprocessors Supervisor Is Arrested In Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) — A former super- visor at the Agriprocessors kosher meat- packing plant in Iowa was arrested in Israel on March 31. Hosam Amara, 46, was indicted in 2009 on federal charges of fraud and immigration abuses. He is accused of some of the worst worker abuses at the now defunct plant in Hosam Amara Postville, according Daniel Viflic (inset) and the bus struck by a terrorist rocket. JERUSALEM (JTA) T he Israeli teen injured in a Gaza rocket attack on a school bus has died a day after a weeklong cease-fire between Israel and Gaza terror groups was disrupted. Israel Channel 2 reported Sunday evening that Daniel Viflic, 16, was declared dead at Beersheba's Soroka Hospital, 10 days after suffering severe head trauma after a rocket fired from Gaza slammed into his school bus traveling outside of Kibbutz Sa'ad in southern Israel near the Gaza border. The bus driver, the only other occupant of the bus at the time of the attack, also was injured. Viflic had been in a deep coma with no brain activity for at least a week. Early Saturday, Israeli airstrikes hit two terrorist bases near Gaza City in retaliation for rocket fire on two southern Israeli cit- ies, disrupting the unofficial cease-fire. The Israeli attack came hours after two long-range rockets were fired from Gaza on Ashdod and Ashkelon. The cease-fire had started a few days after the school bus bombing following Israeli retaliatory strikes for weeks of increased rocket attacks by Gaza terrorist groups that had hit Israel, and after a weekend in which 150 rockets from Gaza struck southern Israel, including the rocket that hit Viflic. Nineteen Palestinians were killed in Israeli retaliatory strikes. to the Des Moines Register. In 2008, the plant was the site of what at the time was the largest immigration enforce- ment action in American history. Extradition proceedings against Amara will begin in Israel on May 2, according to the newspaper. Amara is charged with one count of conspiracy to harbor undocumented aliens for profit; 24 counts of harboring and aiding and abetting the harboring of undocumented aliens for profit; one count of conspiracy to commit docu- ment fraud; and one count of aiding and abetting document fraud. He faces up to 260 years in prison and $6.75 million in fines if convicted, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin was convicted in 2009 on 86 counts of fraud related to his manage- ment of the plant and later sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. He remains in prison while his case is under appeal. Netanyahus Sue Television Station JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, have filed a libel suit against an Israeli television station for what they say is false reporting on a travel scandal. The suit against Israel Channel 10 asks for about $1 million in damages. The Netanyahus deny the allegations on the news program HaMakor, (The Source), that they double-billed two organizations for one trip abroad. The lawsuit also claims that the sta- tion went forward with its report on the "Bibi Tours" scandal despite the fact that the Netanyahus provided answers to their questions. 21 2011 27