Hundreds of Israelis joined reporters and television cameramen at Lydda Airport to welcome Mordechai Rachamim, the 23-year-old former El Al security guard who was acquitted of murder by a Swiss court. Rachamim was found to have acted in self-defense when he shot one of four Arab terrorists who machine gunned an El Al plane at Zurich Airport last Feb. 18. The three surviving terrorists were sentenced to 12 years at hard labor for the murder of an Israeli pilot trainee, Yoram Peress.
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