Israel will formally recognize the Aug. 4 deadly shooting spree in northern Israel as a terrorist attack. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked the National Insurance Institute last Friday to designate the attack in the town of Shfaram — in which a young Jewish man opened fire in a public bus, killing four Muslim and Christian Arabs — as terrorism.
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