WORLD : Israeli Charged With 7 Murders
A Tel Aviv court today charged a 21-year-old Israeli with the murder of seven Palestinian laborers in an attack that set off clashes in which 20 other people died.
A five-man psychiatric panel rejected a claim that the suspect, Ami Popper, was unfit to stand trial, officials said.
Prosecutor Nurit Smith said Popper will face a mandatory life sentence if convicted of slaying the seven Arab laborers and wounding 10.
In the May 20 killings, an armed attacker ordered about 50 Palestinians to sit in rows as they waited for day jobs in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Letzion. He then fired an assault rifle on the unarmed laborers.
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