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Anti-Zionist Haredi Arrested In Yad Vashem Vandalism
Jerusalem Post and Ynet News
p
olice have arrested four suspects
in the vandalism of Yad Vashem
Holocaust Museum earlier in
June.
The suspects are ultra-Orthodox (hare-
di) residents of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak,
Israel. Three of them have been indenti-
fied by authorities as ages 18, 26 and 27.
The Jerusalem district police said
Tuesday that the suspects have also been
linked to other vandalism cases of monu-
ments in the greater Jerusalem area.
According to police sources, a search
of the suspects' apartments yielded anti-
Israel and anti-Zionists material, spray
cans and PLO flags. A search of their
computers derived material the police
said constitutes sedition.
Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld
confirmed that all of the suspects were
members of Neturei Karta.
Neturei Karta is a small,' but vocal,
extreme anti-Zionist sect, which believes
that the founding of the State of Israel, with-
out specific divine intervention, was a sin.
The suspects
confessed to spray-
painting the graffiti
at Yad Vashem, which
shocked the country
and deeply upset
Holocaust survivors.
They also confessed to
spray-painting graffiti
at Ammunition Hill on
Memorial Day for the
IDF's fallen as well as
vandalizing memorials
throughout the Jordan
Valley.
The desecrated wall at Yad Vashem
Police had believed
from the start that
ultra-Orthodox extremists, such as the
another, while a third slogan was, "Jews,
suspects, had been responsible for cover-
wake up, the evil regime does not protect
ing the monuments at Yad Vashem with
us, it only endangers us."
hateful anti-Zionist slogans.
Ten graffiti slogans were spray-painted
One spray-painted slogan said, "If
in large black letters concentrated in the
Hitler hadn't existed, the Zionists would
Warsaw Ghetto Square and the Deportees
have invented him."
Memorial next to the cattle car.
"Thanks Hitler for the wonderful
Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev
Holocaust you organized for us! Only
said the graffiti was the worst thing he
because of you we received a state read
had seen in his career. Cl
Israeli Arab Gets Life
In Flint Murder
Flint (JTA) — Elias Abuelazam, a Christian
Arab from Ramle who immigrated to the
United States, received a life sentence for
stabbing man to death as part of killing
spree.
Abuelazam, 33, was sentenced Monday
for the stabbing death of Arnold Minor, 49.
Abuelazam was accused of killing three
people during a series of killings and attacks
in three states during the summer of 2010.
In addition to the three murder charges,
Abuelazam also is facing six assault with
intent to murder charges in the Flint area, as
well as attempted murder charges in Toledo,
Ohio. He is a suspect as well in several
attacks in Leesburg, Va.
His attorney mounted a not guilty by
reason of insanity case. People convicted
of first-degree murder in Michigan cannot
receive parole.
Abuelazam, who lived in the U.S. for
several years as a child and reportedly was
living legally in the U.S. on a green card
obtained when he married a citizen, was
arrested Aug. 1, 2010, in Atlanta after board-
ing a flight to Israel.
Nearly all of the attacks involved dark-
skinned victims, either black or Latin
American.
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