Dozens of Palestinian women are responding to a decree issued by Saudi Arabia’s High Islamic Council to become suicide bombers, according to the Sunday Times of London. The report of last week’s decree comes after a 23-year-old mother of two was arrested with explosives at Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station last Friday.
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