Yasser Arafat reportedly has given money to the fervently Orthodox but anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect. Documents the Israeli army captured in the Palestinian Authority president’s Ramallah headquarters during Operation Defensive Shield two years ago showed that Arafat paid the group’s leader, Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, $55,000 just two months before the military campaign, the Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported.
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