Mayor Abdul Hamid Abu-Sneine of Kalkilya, an Arab town in the West Bank, has offered a reward of 1,000 Jordanian Dinars for information leading to the arrest of the person who shot an Israeli in the Kalkilya marketplace last Saturday afternoon. The victim, Yitzhak Ron, 43, of the nearby settlement of Sal’it, was described in good condition at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva where he was treated for a bullet wound in the neck. The Kalkilya Mayor visited him at the hospital Sunday.
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