A Hamas cell uncovered by the Shin Bet planned to abduct a settler leader. Rabbi Moshe Levinger, spiritual head of the Hebron Jewish community, was a leading target of several dozen Hamas terrorists arrested earlier this year in the West Bank city, Israeli security sources said Monday.
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