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(IsraelNN.com) An Adolf Hitler look-alike met with an untimely demise on the opening day of Madame Tussauds’ new wax museum in Berlin: The second visitor to enter the museum tore off the head the life-sized wax figure to protest its inclusion in the museum. A 41-year-old resident of Berlin shoved aside two museum guards to attack the figure, lightly injuring one.

--Muslim clerics visited the home of the tractor terrorist in the weeks before the attack and convinced him to carry out a “heroic act,” according to Yechiel Leiter, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Policy Studies.

Two Years Ago Today at IsraelNN
The High Court ruled against a petition to prevent four Jordanian terrorists serving life terms in jail for the murder of IDF soldiers in 1990 and 1994 from being returned to Jordan.

--An Israeli Arab has been appointed as a director of the Jewish National Fund, which works to purchase land in Israel for Jewish settlement.

Twenty Years Ago Today in Israel
An Arab terrorist seized a bus traveling between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He forced the bus to crash into a ravine near Telshe Stone. The bus burst into flames, killing sixteen passengers, many of whom burned in their seats.