Yitchak Pass of Hevron and his brother-in-law Mati Shvo of Maon were convicted today of illegal possession of eight bricks of dynamite stolen from the army. They were originally arrested over four months ago, and were held for over two weeks without being permitted to speak with their lawyer or family members. Justice Dalia Dorner, justifying the harsh incarceration conditions at the time, said that she had received secret information from the GSS and that the two were suspected of membership in a terrorist organization.
As predicted at the time by their attorney Naftali Wurtzberger, however, the "mountain yielded only a mouse," and their guilt came down only to illegal possession of dynamite. The conviction was the result of a plea bargain, which did not include sentencing. A separate session for sentencing will be held in two months' time.
Yitzchak Pass is a terrorism-bereaved father. He was about to pick up his baby daughter Shalhevet from her stroller two and a half years ago when a terrorist placed her in the sights of his gun and shot a bullet through her skull. The murder occurred in the Avraham Avinu neighborhood of Hevron, and the killer was standing in the Abu Sneineh section overlooking it. Pass, too, was wounded in the attack.
As predicted at the time by their attorney Naftali Wurtzberger, however, the "mountain yielded only a mouse," and their guilt came down only to illegal possession of dynamite. The conviction was the result of a plea bargain, which did not include sentencing. A separate session for sentencing will be held in two months' time.
Yitzchak Pass is a terrorism-bereaved father. He was about to pick up his baby daughter Shalhevet from her stroller two and a half years ago when a terrorist placed her in the sights of his gun and shot a bullet through her skull. The murder occurred in the Avraham Avinu neighborhood of Hevron, and the killer was standing in the Abu Sneineh section overlooking it. Pass, too, was wounded in the attack.