A terrorist bombing in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood was averted when an alert passer-by spotted a Palestinian youth tossing a suspicious bag into a dumpster. The woman summoned police while her son opened the bag and disconnected a cellular phone from what turned out to be a bomb.
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