The World - News from Dec. 24, 1986
An Israeli judge sentenced a U.S.-born member of an underground Jewish terrorist group to 2 1/2 years in prison. Ira Rappaport, formerly of New York, was convicted of belonging to a group that carried out attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in the 1980s. These included a case of aggravated assault in attaching a booby-trapped bomb to the car of a former Arab mayor of Nablus, Bassam Shaka. Shaka lost his legs in the 1980 explosion. Rappaport, who plea-bargained, was sentenced to a four-year prison term with 18 months of the sentence suspended.
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