The World - News from April 4, 1988
Israeli members of Parliament clashed over reports that members of a far-right Jewish underground, some serving life sentences for murder, may be pardoned before Israel’s 40th anniversary in May. Justice Minister Avraham Sharir recommended Friday that President Chaim Herzog pardon the last five Jews still serving sentences for attacks on Palestinians between 1980 and 1984. But Herzog’s office denied rumors of an impending pardon. Twenty-eight Jews were convicted in 1984 of killing three students at Hebron’s Islamic University, planting car bombs that maimed the Palestinian mayors of Nablus and Ramallah and plotting to blow up a mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
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