Teens jailed for neo-Nazi attacks
An Israeli court jailed eight Jewish teenagers for carrying out neo-Nazi attacks.
Tel Aviv District Court Judge Zvi Gurfinkel sentenced the youths, ages 16 to 19, to between one and seven years in prison for a “shocking and horrifying” yearlong spree of attacks that targeted foreign workers, ultra-Orthodox Jews and homeless men.
The court said the group also planned to attack Arabs.
The eight were immigrants from the former Soviet Union and court documents cited social adjustment difficulties as a factor behind their involvement in the gang.
One was the grandson of Holocaust survivors.
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