An Israeli court jailed two West Bank settlers for 15 months on weapons charges. Yitzhak Pass, whose infant daughter, Shalhevet, was killed by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron in 2001, and his brother-in-law, Matityahu Shvu, admitted to trying to smuggle 88 pounds of explosives into Jerusalem last year.
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