Two Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City were given life sentences for stabbing a Jewish settler who was on his way to morning prayers two years ago. The court said the two “murdered a Jew whose only crime in their eyes was that he was a Jew.” Chaim Kerman was stabbed more than 30 times in May 1998.
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