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Dichter to police: Demolish home of Jerusalem yeshiva terrorist
By Jonathan Lis and Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Mercaz Harav yeshiva 

Public Security Minister Avi Dichter instructed police on Wednesday to demolish the house belonging to the family of the Israeli Arab terrorist who gunned down eight yeshiva students in Jerusalem last Thursday.

The house is located in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber.

Following the order, police asked the Defense Ministry to examine the legality of the move, and to consider an alternative option of sealing the house.
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"I very much hope that in the end that legal establishment will allow us to carry out [the demolition], but without it, nothing can be done," Dichter said at a Knesset session.

Alaa Abu Dhaim, the gunman, killed seven teenage boys and one 26-year-old, as well as wounding nine others, when he burst into the Mercaz Harav seminary in Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood and opened fire in the library.

Dichter also said that police have not destroyed the mourning tent erected for the terrorist since the tent itself is not an offense, and "therefore no [law] enforcement is needed."

"I don't suppose the MKs want to live according to Jordanian law," he said, referring to Jordan's refusal last week to allow Abu Dhaim's family to erect a public mourning tent for him in Amman.

Dichter maintained that the police are acting according to authorized legal opinions, and not according to their desires and wishes. "Law enforcement is needed when the law is violated. The mourning tent was not taken down because according to the law it cannot be destroyed. I do not recommend interpreting the word 'identification' [with terror] in any other way than the law allows."

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      1.   Explain this 16:28  |  Ilan 12/03/08
      2.   Summary Punishment against innocents; The family committed no... 16:28  |  POP 12/03/08
      3.   Summary Punishment against innocents; The family committed no... 16:29  |  POP 12/03/08
      4.   ICAHD 16:55  |  E. Cohn 12/03/08
      5.   The Faters Being Punished for the Sins of the Sons 16:56  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      6.   This is Newsworthy 17:00  |  POP 12/03/08
      7.   Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 17:02  |  POP 12/03/08
      8.   Our Land 17:02  |  Allon 12/03/08
      9.   Supporters of murder of Jews must be ousted, ok?? 17:02  |  POP 12/03/08
      10.   Sadism 17:08  |  Mark Lincoln 12/03/08
      11.   I`m confused, too 17:14  |  Aphemia 12/03/08
      12.   What would demolishing the house do? 17:19  |  Ben 12/03/08
      13.   Just Shut Up 17:23  |  SMART JEW 12/03/08
      14.   Equality under the law? 17:25  |  IsraeliArab 12/03/08
      15.   To ICAHD 17:31  |  Jurist 12/03/08
      16.   Home destruction 17:54  |  Avi 12/03/08
      17.   Collective punishment is a much beloved Israeli instituition 17:54  |  Natallie Durson 12/03/08
      18.   Did The British Destroy the Houses of IRA Bombers? 18:01  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      19.   POP 18:05  |  George 12/03/08
      20.   SHYLOCK LIVES ? 18:21  |  Arik Silverman 12/03/08
      21.   Typical Israeli Action 18:26  |  johnj 12/03/08
      22.   Curious Bystander 18:46  |  Joe 12/03/08
      23.   To Yaakov Sullivan 18:52  |  JT 12/03/08
      24.   That`s barbaric and against international law. 19:04  |  Dutch 12/03/08
      25.   Dichter shows his tribal instinct .... 19:06  |  Dutch 12/03/08
      26.   Spell out this law... 19:24  |  Esther 12/03/08
      27.   Same "justice" for jewish terorists next kin? 19:28  |  Saenger 12/03/08
      28.   Re #10, 18 British Mandate invented practice of demolishing homes 19:28  |  DJStahl 12/03/08
      29.   american people support 19:28  |  bri 12/03/08
      30.   # 17 Hey, Fatmah, long time no talk... 19:30  |  Misha 12/03/08
      31.   Why are Jewish donations used to kill us? 19:35  |  Yonason Herschlag 12/03/08
      32.   JT from NZ What Are You Saying? 19:36  |  Yaakov Sullivan 12/03/08
      33.   If familiy committed crime too, why are they not arrested? 19:37  |  Avner 12/03/08
      34.   Demolishing family house? On what legal ground? 19:41  |  Dan 12/03/08
      35.   Thats why Dichter himself cannot travel to Europe 19:59  |  Rasta 12/03/08
      36.   make sure family inside when it`s done 20:13  |  DON 12/03/08
      37.   so 20:14  |  rm 12/03/08
      38.   #26 Esther: It will be easier to spell out what crime it is 20:38  |  JJ 12/03/08
      39.   bri 29 20:39  |  RAK 12/03/08
      40.   POP rightwinger zionist 20:59  |  sam i am 12/03/08
      41.   the ugly face of 21:24  |  scanadu 12/03/08
      42.   Insane and Selective Demolition 21:24  |  Steve 12/03/08
      43.   Dutch the criminal 21:38  |  judith 12/03/08
      44.   destroying homes 21:46  |  D Hirod 12/03/08
      45.   To yaakov & friends. Is the family guilty ? 21:50  |  Alatalena 12/03/08
      46.   to 42 Steve: Demolition or not ? 22:04  |  Altalena 12/03/08
      47.   to Steve #42 22:16  |  nina 12/03/08
      48.   Demolish home of Jerusalem yeshiva terrorist 22:19  |  Bruce 12/03/08
      49.   In muslim countries they would`ve all been lynched already 22:30  |  AAANGRY 12/03/08
      50.   Hey POP! 22:33  |  Order 12/03/08
      51.   to rak 39 22:36  |  bri 12/03/08
      52.   Home demolitions are not helpful 22:42  |  Li 12/03/08
      53.   Hypocracy at its worst 22:49  |  ChanahS 12/03/08
      54.   2 POP 22:50  |  POP`S POP 12/03/08
      55.   Natallie Durson 17 22:51  |  ChanahS 12/03/08
      56.   Re Bruce #48..."...those that love life..." 22:52  |  Esther 12/03/08
      57.   #5 Turncoat Sullivan - Of course the family was involved 22:52  |  * BEN JABO 12/03/08
      58.   To 52 Li. Security disaster 22:56  |  Altalena 12/03/08
      59.   ethnic cleansing 23:00  |  La Gye 12/03/08
      60.   Nina 23:06  |  Steve 12/03/08
      61.   No, Yakov Sullivan 23:08  |  JT 12/03/08
      62.   To 56 Esther. Love life & defend it if necessary 23:14  |  Altalena 12/03/08
      63.   burn the tent 23:24  |  frenz 12/03/08
      64.   Leftie Ester,why don`t you join some new Gujana Jones sect? 23:29  |  Absolute Sweden 12/03/08
      65.   answer to 18 Yaakov S 23:44  |  leo 12/03/08
      66.   # 28 dj stahl 23:50  |  Axel 12/03/08
      67.   #30 Misha--The Arab 23:56  |  George 12/03/08
      68.   Gee, the terror lovers are unusally nervous, lol? 00:01  |  Johnny 13/03/08
      69.   Baruch Goldstein 00:03  |  W 13/03/08
      70.   "Rightist" rabbis? How come no "leftist" newspapers? Haaretz? 00:07  |  bat yam 13/03/08
      71.   # 46 altalena 00:10  |  Axel 13/03/08
      72.   # 57 ben jabber 00:13  |  Axel 13/03/08
      73.   # 49 angry 00:15  |  Axel