An Israeli court jailed two West Bank settlers for 15 months on weapons charges. Yitzhak Pass, whose infant daughter, Shalhevet, was killed by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron in 2001, and his brother-in-law, Matityahu Shvu, admitted to trying to smuggle 88 pounds of explosives into Jerusalem last year.
Reporting the stories that define our era. When history unfolds in real-time, the Jewish world turns to JTA. Your support ensures we can document the complexities of war and the resilience of Jewish communities with integrity.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
