A chase after a religious Israeli soldier feared to be another Jewish terrorist turned out to be much ado about nothing. Israeli police chased the soldier down Monday near the Arab city of Nazareth after he was seen boarding a bus. But the Nazareth police chief released the soldier after saying he knew him and that he posed no threat to society, Ha’aretz reported.
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