Menachem Livni, director of the Kiryat Arba Technological Initiative Center, was saved from a bombing attempt ten days ago. Local Arabs placed an explosive attached to a cellular phone in his field, but he called sappers to dismantle it before it could go off. Livni\'s name appeared on a list of \"targets\" released by Palestinian terrorist organizations several months ago.
Menachem Livni, who headed the Jewish underground of 17 years ago, spoke with Arutz-7 today:
\"We have cherry and wine orchards east of Kiryat Arba, not far from the Arab village Bani Na\'im. I arrived there last Sunday with two workers, and I heard a faint ring of a cell phone. I looked and saw about a half-meter away from me the phone, attached to an explosive of about one or two kilograms. A great miracle happened to me in that it did not work, because otherwise we wouldn\'t be speaking now…
\"I have no doubt that they tried to kill me, and I think I even saw the men who tried to detonate it, sitting on a porch about a kilometer away from me in a home in PA-controlled territory. As soon as I heard the ring, I picked up my binoculars and I saw them sitting there; I have no doubt that it was aimed specifically for me.
\"I feel generally that the PA are trying a new strategy of killing various Israelis; they succeeded in murdering Gandhi, and tried yesterday to get a naval officer in Ra\'anana... I personally am not afraid; I believe in the Master of the World, and we will continue to live here and work this land…
\"Originally, the IDF objected to giving over Bani Na\'im to the PA, but then the dreamy politicians came and forced their opinion on the army. They also gave weapons to the PA, which are being used against us now. They must be brought to task for these things. We must all work together to demand a national commission to investigate everything that led up to the Oslo Agreements, and bring to trial those who are responsible. It\'s inconceivable that when 11 Arabs are killed during violent rioting [in Oct. 2000], there is an immediate public investigation, but when hundreds of innocent citizens are murdered [during the past year], nothing happens.\"
Menachem Livni, who headed the Jewish underground of 17 years ago, spoke with Arutz-7 today:
\"We have cherry and wine orchards east of Kiryat Arba, not far from the Arab village Bani Na\'im. I arrived there last Sunday with two workers, and I heard a faint ring of a cell phone. I looked and saw about a half-meter away from me the phone, attached to an explosive of about one or two kilograms. A great miracle happened to me in that it did not work, because otherwise we wouldn\'t be speaking now…
\"I have no doubt that they tried to kill me, and I think I even saw the men who tried to detonate it, sitting on a porch about a kilometer away from me in a home in PA-controlled territory. As soon as I heard the ring, I picked up my binoculars and I saw them sitting there; I have no doubt that it was aimed specifically for me.
\"I feel generally that the PA are trying a new strategy of killing various Israelis; they succeeded in murdering Gandhi, and tried yesterday to get a naval officer in Ra\'anana... I personally am not afraid; I believe in the Master of the World, and we will continue to live here and work this land…
\"Originally, the IDF objected to giving over Bani Na\'im to the PA, but then the dreamy politicians came and forced their opinion on the army. They also gave weapons to the PA, which are being used against us now. They must be brought to task for these things. We must all work together to demand a national commission to investigate everything that led up to the Oslo Agreements, and bring to trial those who are responsible. It\'s inconceivable that when 11 Arabs are killed during violent rioting [in Oct. 2000], there is an immediate public investigation, but when hundreds of innocent citizens are murdered [during the past year], nothing happens.\"