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Eyal Yifrach, 19,

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"With this bitter news all of Israel
mourns their deaths:' said Peres.
"Along with our deep sense of loss we
remain committed to bringing the
terrorists to justice. Our resolve in the
fight against terror will only strengthen
and we will ensure that murderous ter-
rorism of this sort will not dare to rear
its head again:"
The bodies of the three kidnapped
Israeli teenagers were found in the
West Bank in a field north of Hebron.
It is believed that the bodies were
dumped in haste and covered quickly.
The teens reportedly were killed shortly
after they were abducted on June 12.
The teens were last seen trying to
get rides home from a junction in
Gush Etzion, a bloc of settlements
located south of Jerusalem. One of
the teens, Naftali Fraenkel, was a dual
American-Israeli citizen.
Israeli TV showed images of relatives
and friends flooding the homes of the
families after the discovery was reported.
Israel's Shin Bet security service and
the Israel Defense Forces on June 26
identified two West Bank Palestinian
men affiliated with the terrorist group
Hamas, Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan
Kawasme, as the alleged kidnappers.
The suspects, who live in Hebron, have
been missing since the kidnapping.
The bodies were found by a vol-

unteer civilian search team working
with an elite Israeli army unit on land
belonging to the Kawasme family. The
bodies, which were tied up, report-
edly were in poor condition when
they were discovered.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said, "Hamas is respon-
sible and Hamas will pay." He called
the victims "pure and young."
Heidi Budaj, director of ADL,
Michigan Region, was in Israel at
the time the bodies were discovered,
leading a trip of young leaders.
Ashley Schwartz of West Bloomfield,
a participant in the trip, said, "My initial
reaction after hearing of this great trag-
edy was that I felt obligated to give back
to the families of these three boys.
"This past week our group, whose
trip was funded by Partners in Torah,
wrote letters to the families of these
same boys at the nonprofit One Family,
an organization that provides services
to victims of tragedy. This visit, in con-
junction with the classes I have taken
at Partners in Torah on kindness and
leadership have compelled me to reach
out to this organization again"
Budai's group planned on attending
the funeral of the teens on July 1. The
teens were to be buried side-by-side
in a cemetery in Modi'in.

❑

JTA and Story Development Editor Keri
Guten Cohen contributed to this report.

What Happened At Kidnapping?

David Horovitz
Mitch Ginsburg
Times of Israel

E

yal Yifrach, 19, Naftali
Fraenkel, 16, and Gilad
Shaar, 16, the three kid-
napped Israeli teenagers whose bod-
ies were found Monday, realized very
quickly that they had been abducted
on the night of June 12.
They had been hitchhiking home
from outside the settlement of Alon
Shvut in the Etzion Bloc south of
Jerusalem soon after 10 p.m., and took
a ride in a Hyundai i35. Inside, Israel
alleges, were Hamas terrorists Amer
Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme.
Recognizing, too late, that the car
was not an innocent Israeli vehicle,
one of the teens called the police at
10:25 p.m. and whispered, "We've
been kidnapped:'
The kidnappers, apparently real-

izing that a call had been made, shot
the three teens dead soon afterwards
in the backseat of the car, military
sources said.
The killers then drove a further
10 minutes or so, before switching
vehicles. They abandoned the car, and
set it on fire.
They transferred the bodies to the
second vehicle and drove close to the
field in the Halhul area where the al
three corpses were ultimately dis-
covered, bound, partially buried on •
Monday afternoon.
Unbeknown to the killers, the emer-
gency call had not prompted an alert
by Israel's security forces. The senior
officer did not pass on the information
to her superiors or listen to the record-
ing for further evidence, concluding
that it was a prank call. Some seven
hours later, security forces realized
there had been a kidnapping and
began what became an 18-day search
operation. ❑

'we Saw The Evil

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ow, as we are choked from the
tears and the blood boils, when
the heart refuses to accept the
situation and our minds struggle to think
clearly, we are entitled to ask for the wis-
dom to learn and take something from
these tumultuous past two and half weeks,
that we remember, and never forget so
quickly:
It was 18 days, throughout which an
entire country wavered between hope and
despair, during which we were exposed
to a different set of values. We were intro-
duced to three families, like thousands of
other families out there; good, unassuming
people who rallied the public alongside
them and taught us about love, prayer, mag-
nanimity, thankfulness, positive spirit and
faith in an enduring Israel.
The past 18 days also exposed us to evil.
We saw how many Palestinians in Judea
and Samaria chose to celebrate on the roof-
tops, distribute candy and joyfully flash
their three-fingered victory sign.
We saw how Palestinian women rejoiced.
We saw the sheer happiness of the men. We
took note of it. We will try to not forget so
quickly. Peace, we have always maintained,
is made between peoples, not leaders. Is the
"people" on the other side really a partner?
And one more thing: Don't believe
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas. In the areas under P.A. control,
hatred, evil, the glorification of terror,
abductions and suicide bombings have been
propagated for years on end, along with the
denial of Israel's existence and the blood
libels against it.
One hand pours gasoline on this fire of
incitement (even in recent days), on which
Palestinian children and potential kidnap-
pers and murderers are raised, while the
other hand helps Israel catch them. One
hand ignites fires; the other hand opens the
fire hydrant. This is not the behavior of a
peace partner.
Finally, whichever way we look at it,
whichever way we slice it — terrorists
released through prisoner exchanges or
goodwill gestures, and even those who sim-
ply finished serving their sentence, return
to murder, abduct and hurt us. Any deal or
gesture pours more gasoline on the fire of
terrorism and contributes, whether directly
or indirectly, to the next bombing, murder
and abduction. It almost invites these acts.
Stop releasing them, stop calling them
"security prisoners:' and make sure they stop
receiving salaries from the P.A. and from
Abbas (to whom we transfer money) for
their crimes, their murders and their kidnap-
pings. ❑

Nadav Shragai, a longtime reporter for Ha'aretz,

now writes for Israel Hayom.

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