An Israeli court extended by four days the detention of a Safed resident suspected of plotting to attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Shabtai Bloch, a member of the Chabad movement, planned the action to occur when Netanyahu visited the northern Israeli town last week. Police claim Bloch told investigators that Jewish religious law permitted actions beyond political protest in the event of the handing over of any portion of the Land of Israel. Bloch denies the allegations against him.
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