Ya’akov (Jack) Teitel, who is accused of murdering two Palestinian Authority Arabs and bombing several political and religious opponents, is fit to stand trial, the Jerusalem District Court confirmed on Wednesday.
The judges ruled that Teitel, who was arrested in 2009, will stand trial for the two murders which took place in 1997, for setting off a bomb at the home of a Christian family in the city of Ariel, injuring one person seriously, of placing bombs at several police headquarters, and of placing a bomb in the yard of the home of radical left-wing Professor Ze’ev Sternhell.
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