The man who headed Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service when a 1984 bus hijacking occurred, has resumed working for the security establishment on a part-time, temporary basis, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported. Avraham Shalom was forced to resign following the incident, in which he ordered security agents to kill two Palestinian terrorists who had been apprehended after the hijacking.
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