WORLD IN BRIEF : ISRAEL : Rabbi Who Shot Arab Leaves Prison
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a Jewish settler leader, left prison in Kfar Sava, Israel, after serving 13 weeks for killing an Arab. He said he would shoot again if he thought it necessary. Levinger was sentenced in a plea bargain for shooting shoe vendor Hassan Salah, 42, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Hebron in 1988. The ultra-nationalist rabbi said he fired in self-defense when Arab protesters stoned his car.
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