An Israeli court sentenced one of the co-founders of the Hebron settlers movement to six months in jail. Rabbi Moshe Levinger also received a six-month suspended sentence and a fine for disturbing Muslim prayers at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs and for blocking an army commander from entering a settlement near Hebron.
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