Arabs Beat Up Jewish Private Eye

Arabs in Shechem recently beat up a Jewish private investigator, working on behalf of the Defense Ministry. The investigator, whose name was not released, told Arutz-7, “Dozens of Arabs, armed with clubs and knives, surrounded me and threatened to force me to stay inside a butcher shop.” Palestinian Authority security forces freed him after half an hour.

His attackers were members of a family that has sued the government for compensation following an incident two years in which IDF soldiers killed the owner of the butcher shop while capturing a terrorist who used the store as a hiding place.

The Defense Ministry sent the investigator, a resident in a Negev community, to Shechem several times to gather more information on the incident. He commented, "The family is trying to extort from the government money that it does not deserve.”

The investigator, who has an outstanding reputation, previously had entered and left Shechem without incident.

Several weeks ago ten former combat soldiers, working privately, entered an Arab village in the Tulkarm area east of Netanya and rescued an American woman and her child who had been kept there for more than two years against her will by her husband.

The husband had induced the woman to return with him to Israel and marry him after he met her in the United States. He had threatened her that she would never see her child again if she tried to escape.