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campaign to deserving Jewish institu-
tions are vital to our ongoing protec-
tion that enables us to work, worship,
gather and learn without fear:'
Congress established the Nonprofit
Security Grant Program in 2005, at
the behest of the Jewish Federations,
the Orthodox Union and other leading
nonprofit organizations, in recogni-
tion that certain segments of the
nonprofit sector are considered high-
value civilian targets by terrorists and
radical extremists.
"Since Sept. 11th, nonprofits gener-
ally, and Jewish communal institu-
tions specifically, have been the victim
of an alarming number of threats and
attacks," said William C. Daroff, vice
president for public policy and direc-
tor of Jewish Federations of North
America's Washington Office.
wrote in their decision. "The impris-
oned criminal, whose life would be
taken after being sentenced to death,
might turn into a martyr, a shaheed in
their terms, with all the meanings that
are attached to it."
The five consecutive life sentences
are equal to 130 years in prison.
Awad and his cousin, Amjad Awad,
19, murdered Udi Fogel, 36, and Ruth
Fogel, 35, and their children, Yoav, 11;
Elad, 4; and Hadas, 3 months, in a
Shabbat eve attack on their home in
the northern West Bank. Amjad Awad
has been convicted of the murders
and is awaiting sentencing.
Three of the Fogel children survived
the attack: Two were sleeping in a side
bedroom and were not discovered,
and a daughter was out of the house
at the time of the killings. She came
home to discover the bodies.
Friday Night Dinner
Egypt Extends Detention
Of American-Israeli Grapel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egypt report-
edly has extended by 45 days its
detention of Ilan Grapel, the dual
U.S.-Israeli citizen arrested in Egypt
on spying charges.
The remand of Grapel, 27, who was
arrested in June on suspicion of being
a member of Israel's Mossad spy
agency, was reported late last week by
the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper.
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo report-
edly requested that Grapel be free on
bail for the duration of the investiga-
tion, which has lasted three months,
but was denied after Egyptian pros-
ecutors said Grapel posed a flight risk.
Originally from New York, Grapel
moved to Israel after his graduation
from Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, joined the army, served
as a paratrooper during the Second
Lebanon War and was wounded in
Southern Lebanon in August 2006.
Egyptian security officials said he
entered the country shortly after the
start of the Jan. 25 uprising that led
to the resignation of President Hosni
Mubarak, during which Grapel alleg-
edly posed as a foreign correspondent.
A law student at Emory University,
Grapel allegedly said he was Muslim
on the visa application he filed with
the Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv
and then entered Egypt using his
American passport.
Grapel denies he is a spy. He says he
came to Egypt to intern for a nongov-
ernmental organization that assists
refugees from Sudan and elsewhere.
Friends of Grapel told the Jerusalem
Post that Grapel was an Arabist and
liked spending time in Egypt.
May Come To U.S. TV
NEW YORK (JTA) — The traditional
Shabbat dinner might be coming to
American television.
Greg Daniels, who adapted The
Office for American viewers, report-
edly is in talks to bring the BBC pro-
gram Friday Night Dinner to the NBC
network.
The British comedy, which has been
renewed for a second season, is about
the Goodmans, a traditional but not
strictly observant Jewish family. Every
Friday night the two adult sons, broth-
ers Adam and Jonny, come home to
eat Shabbat dinner with their parents,
and promptly revert to their fighting
adolescent selves while their parents
nose into the sad state of their love
lives.
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74 September 22 2011
Fogels' Killer Sentenced
To Five Life Sentences
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian
man was sentenced to five consecutive
life sentences for the murder of five
members of the Fogel family in a West
Bank Jewish settlement.
Hakim Awad, 18, was sentenced
last week in a West Bank military
court. He had admitted guilt in the
March 11 murders in Itamar, which is
near his home in the West Bank town
of Hawarta, and refused to express
regret. The judges called the attack
"an atrocious, bone-chilling and ter-
rifying act:'
Israel does not have a death pen-
alty, though the judges said in their
decision that they had deliberated on
sentencing Awad to death.
"A case such as this tempts the use
of such a punishment," the judges