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Mon 11 Nov 2009Israeli police arrest West Bank settler over Palestinian killings
ISRAELI POLICE have arrested an American immigrant resident of a West Bank settler outpost on suspicion of murdering two Palestinians and carrying out a string of attacks against other targets, including a prominent Israeli professor and a family which practised Christianity.
Yaakov “Jack” Teitel, a religious Jew and father of four, emigrated to Israel in 2000. He was arrested last month after handing out posters in an ultra-orthodox Jerusalem neighbourhood praising a shooting at a Tel Aviv gay club.
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