Ten Arabs have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering Akiva Shaltiel, a 21-year-old Israeli soldier, in April 1985.
The 10 men, from the village of Kafr Kassem in the Galilee and two villages near Nablus, are also suspected of shooting at a bus on the trans-Samaria highway last November and of throwing a grenade at another bus in Nablus in August of last year.
Shaltiel was kidnapped as he was hitch-hiking home to the largely Yemenite town of Rosh Ha’Ayin from his post in Lebanon. His body was found some days later near Bet Arieh in Samaria by an Arab shepherd.
The 10 detainees are said to belong to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Military sources said that further arrests are expected shortly.
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