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October 5, 2009

Israeli Official Cancels Trip to UK Fearing Arrest
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In other news, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports Israel’s Vice Prime
Minister Moshe Ya’alon recently canceled a planned trip to Britain for
fear of being arrested there. Ya’alon is the former chief of staff of
the Israel Defense Forces. He is one of several current and former
senior Israeli officers whom pro-Palestinian groups have sought to put
on trial over the assassination of senior Hamas commander Salah Shehadeh
in 2002. The attack also killed fourteen civilians.



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