Israel: U.S. Immigrant Convicted in Palestinian Deaths
Version 0 of 1. A Jerusalem court on Wednesday convicted an American immigrant who lived in a West Bank settlement of killing two Palestinians in 1997. Known as “the Jewish terrorist,” Yaakov (Jack) Teitel was also convicted of other crimes, including bombings in 2008 that wounded a leftist Israeli professor and a teenage boy belonging to a community of Jews who believe in Jesus. Sentencing is planned for February. |