Significant progress has apparently been made in the investigation of the brutal double-murder of teenagers Kobi Mandell and Yosef Ishran of Tekoa. Contrary to initial reports, the murders now seem to have been planned. Israel police and the General Security Service currently have dozens of Arabs in custody and strongly suspect that the murderers are within this group.
Yediot Acharonot newspaper reports that the terrorists tortured the boys for some two hours before finally murdering them. Syria\'s Tishrin newspaper had this to say about the double murder: \"Two Israeli teenagers from a Jewish settlement were found bound and stoned to death in a West Bank cave on Wednesday in a killing which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blamed on Palestinians.\"
Yediot Acharonot newspaper reports that the terrorists tortured the boys for some two hours before finally murdering them. Syria\'s Tishrin newspaper had this to say about the double murder: \"Two Israeli teenagers from a Jewish settlement were found bound and stoned to death in a West Bank cave on Wednesday in a killing which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blamed on Palestinians.\"