An Israeli court sentenced a Jewish extremist to two-and-a-half years in jail for placing a pig’s head on the grave of a Palestinian nationalist. The court also gave Avigdor Eskin an 18-month suspended sentence for conspiring to torch offices belonging to Israeli peace activists. Eskin was cleared of charges of plotting to catapult a pig’s head onto the Temple Mount.
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