A report by a special investigating committee established by the Defense Ministry says that two terrorists captured in the bus hijacking were beaten to death by security personnel while undergoing interrogation. Two others were shot and killed when Israeli authorities stormed the bus to free the passengers.
Israel marks the 36th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish State. Its population increases by two percent over the past year, bringing the total to 4.170 million.
Twenty-five suspected members of a Jewish terrorist underground on the West Bank are formally charged with a wide range of criminal offenses against Arab civilians, including the gun and grenade attack last May on the Islamic College in Hebron in which three Arab students were killed and 33 others wounded, and the June 1980 car bombing that maimed two West Bank Arab mayors.
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