Three members of a Jewish terrorist underground serving life sentences for crimes of violence to 15 years by President Chaim Herzog on Friday, before the Shavuot holiday began.
Uzi Sharabaf, Shaul Nir and Menachem Livni were convicted of murder in 1985 for their part in an armed attack on the Islamic University in Hebron. They have already served about a third of their reduced sentences.
They were among 80 prisoners, 26 of them lifers, whose prison terms were shortened by Herzog on the occasion of Israel’s 40th anniversary.
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