Israel’s Supreme Court upheld the army’s decision to tear down a shrine at the grave of a Jewish settler who in 1994 killed 29 Muslims praying at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs. The judges said keeping the shrine to Baruch Goldstein would send a message of praise for the crime.
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