Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday stiffened the sentence to four years in prison of a youth convicted of killing an Arab man near Hebron by hitting him in the head with a wooden board. The perpetrator, who killed the man by sticking the board out of the window of the vehicle in which he was riding, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in prison, plus a one year suspended sentence. The Supreme Court explained its move by saying he had singled out the victim because he was an Arab. The trial of another youth charged in the crime is under way.
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