An Israeli army reserve major was sentenced Monday to 20 years for the 1997 murder of a British tourist. In March, a court convicted Daniel Okev of the shooting death of the tourist, Jeffrey Hunter, and wounding Hunter’s girlfriend, Charlotte Gibb, after he picked up the two hitchhikers near Eilat.
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