Cache of Explosives Found in West Bank
Israeli police jailed a Jewish settler after finding a large quantity of illegal explosives and ammunition in his West Bank home along with pamphlets of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s militant Kach Party, Israel radio said Friday.
Police suspect followers of Kahane helped collect the explosives, the radio said. Kahane, an American-born rabbi elected last year to Parliament, advocates the removal of Arabs from the Jewish state.
A Jerusalem court ordered that the settler, a 30-year-old resident of Elazar near Bethlehem, be held for 10 days pending an investigation. The radio said police believe that the ammunition was stolen from the army.
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