An Israeli prison doctor was killed by a car bombing in an attack believed to have been carried out by supporters of a Yemenite activist. Police said Dr. Ya’acov Siegelboim had apparently been targeted because he had refused to recommend Uzi Meshulam’s release from prison. In 1994, the self-proclaimed Yemenite leader and armed followers barricaded themselves in a house in a Tel Aviv for six weeks to press demands for a new inquiry into the fate of Yemenite children in the early days of the Jewish state. Meshulam was seized in a shootout with police and is serving a 6 1/2-year prison term.
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