The World - News from April 18, 1985
A Jerusalem court convicted an Israeli soldier of killing one Palestinian and wounding 10 others in an anti-tank rocket attack on a Jerusalem-to-Bethlehem bus last October and sentenced him to life imprisonment. David Ben-Shimol, 19, was also convicted of throwing a hand grenade into a Palestinian coffee house in Jerusalem’s Old City last September, wounding four people. He told the court the attacks were to avenge the death of a girlfriend killed by a terrorist bomb on a bus.
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