Jerusalem - Israeli police have arrested a suspect in connection with the torching three weeks ago of a West Bank mosque, a police spokesman said. Mickey Rosenfeld said the suspect was taken into custody Thursday morning and was currently being questioned.
Rosenfeld did not give the suspects name, but unconfirmed reports said he is the grandson of Rabbi Meir Kahane, an extremist Israeli settler who advocated the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Kahane, who was served one term in the Israeli Parliament, but whose party was declared "racist" and banned from running for parliament in 1988, was assassinated in November 1990.
The Yasuf mosque, located in the northern West Bank, was vandalized in the early hours of December 11. Assailants burned carpets and holy books, and scrawled graffiti in Hebrew indicating the vandalism was the work of settlers angry at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to impose a 10-month partial moratorium on construction in the West Bank.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/301634,israeli-police-nab-suspect-in-west-bank-mosque-torching.html.
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