On the morning of Yom Kippur Eve of 2001, almost 16 months ago, Tzviyah Pinchas, 60, was found by her husband stabbed to death in her bed in Moshav Maor near Hadera. Local residents said at the time that there had been many Arab break-ins, while in the Pinchas case nothing was taken from the victim's home. Family members said, therefore, that a terrorist had murdered their mother/wife. Despite this, the authorities refused to count the crime as a terrorist murder - until today. Two months ago, an Arab was arrested for other reasons, and it was found that his fingerprints matched those found at the murder site. The man, Salah a-Din Jilabush, 23, confessed to having murdered the woman as part of his Fatah activities. The number of victims of the PA's Oslo War against Israel now stands at 720, and 13 other Israelis were killed by Hizbullah terrorists during this period, including six near Kibbutz Metzubah in March 2002.



In the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Israeli security forces blocked up or destroyed the homes of the four terrorists convicted of murdering 35 Israelis in three separate terrorist attacks last year. The four were sentenced to several life sentences for the massacres they masterminded at the Cafe Moment, Hebrew University, and Rishon LeTzion.



In Jenin, undercover army forces finally caught four Fatah terrorists they had been pursuing for several hours. They caught the four atop a roof of one of the buildings surrounded by the Israelis.