The wheels of justice continue to turn in the cases of Arab accomplices to terrorist crimes. Mahmoud Nadi, an Israeli-Arab taxi driver from Jaffa who drove the Dolphinarium murderer to his final destination in June 2001, leading to 21 deaths, was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison.
In another case yesterday, the Haifa District Court heard the claims of bereaved families from the #37 bus bombing in Haifa in March of this year. The families object to the plea bargain signed with Israeli-Arab Munir Rajbi of Haifa. He originally faced four charges - but the main charge of conspiring to commit a crime was later dropped with the plea bargain. Rajbi has admitted to directing the terrorist, and even considered blowing up together with him. Sixteen people were killed in the blast.
In yet another case, an IDF military appeals court decided yesterday to lighten the sentence of a terrorist involved in another Tel Aviv attack, nine years ago. Muatztam Mukdi of an Arab village in the Shomron aided Yichye Ayash in perpetrating the Dizengoff St. #5 bus attack in which 21 Israelis and a Dutch national were murdered. He was originally sentenced to 22 life imprisonments, plus ten years - but yesterday the court decided that a differentiation must be made between the actual murderer and his accomplice, and subtracted 21 life sentences from Mukdi's term.
In the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur - east of Mt. of Olives and south of Mt. Scopus - the security forces sealed the home of terrorist Ahmed Saada. Saada was the driver of the suicide terrorist who blew himself up on a Kiryat HaYovel bus in Jerusalem in November 2002, killing 11 people.
In another case yesterday, the Haifa District Court heard the claims of bereaved families from the #37 bus bombing in Haifa in March of this year. The families object to the plea bargain signed with Israeli-Arab Munir Rajbi of Haifa. He originally faced four charges - but the main charge of conspiring to commit a crime was later dropped with the plea bargain. Rajbi has admitted to directing the terrorist, and even considered blowing up together with him. Sixteen people were killed in the blast.
In yet another case, an IDF military appeals court decided yesterday to lighten the sentence of a terrorist involved in another Tel Aviv attack, nine years ago. Muatztam Mukdi of an Arab village in the Shomron aided Yichye Ayash in perpetrating the Dizengoff St. #5 bus attack in which 21 Israelis and a Dutch national were murdered. He was originally sentenced to 22 life imprisonments, plus ten years - but yesterday the court decided that a differentiation must be made between the actual murderer and his accomplice, and subtracted 21 life sentences from Mukdi's term.
In the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur - east of Mt. of Olives and south of Mt. Scopus - the security forces sealed the home of terrorist Ahmed Saada. Saada was the driver of the suicide terrorist who blew himself up on a Kiryat HaYovel bus in Jerusalem in November 2002, killing 11 people.