H EADLINES
ISRAELBRIEFS All of the Palestinians Who Escaped from
Israeli Prison Are Recaptured
ISRAEL CAPTURED THE fi nal two Palestinian
prisoners who escaped from a maximum-security
Gilboa facility two weeks earlier, JTA reported.

Israeli police and army troops surrounded a
building in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sept 18,
and the prisoners surrendered.

Th ey were Iham Kamamji, 35, who was convicted in
the 2006 murder of Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli 18-year-
old, and Monadal Infi at, 26, who was convicted of
belonging to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.

Israeli police captured the other four in northern
Israel the week aft er their escape.

Th e other captured prisoners are: Zakaria Zubeidi,
45, a Fatah operative arrested in 2019 for shooting
at Israelis in the West Bank; Yakub Kadari, 49, who
was convicted of planning several attacks on Israelis;
Mahmoud Aradeh, 46, and Mohammed Aradeh,
39, who have been in jail since 1996 and 2002,
respectively. 16 planes and laying off 1,500 employees, Globes
reported. El Al had 45 planes and wants to shrink its fl eet to
29. It will focus more on its North American markets
and halt some fl ights between Israel and Europe.

Th e airline also intends to lay off 1,500 employees.

It now has 4,000 employees, including 1,400 on
unpaid leave. Over the past year, El Al previously laid
off 2,000 workers.

Globes reported that El Air rejected a Ministry of
Finance off er of a $50 million balloon loan, instead
seeking $100 million in damages “caused to El Al
due to decisions by the state, as was done for other
industries in the economy,” CEO Avigal Soreq wrote.

Vaccine Opposition Leader Dies of COVID
Israeli Hai Shaulian, a prominent activist against
coronavirus vaccines, died on Sept. 20 at Wolfson
Medical Center in Holon from the coronavirus, Th e
Jerusalem Post reported.

Shaulian uploaded a video to social media when he
was hospitalized, alleging that he was poisoned.

“Th e Jerusalem police tried to poison me. I have
Troubled El Al Plans to Sell Planes,
never felt this way in my life. All week I struggled as
Layoff 1,500
Financially struggling El Al Israel Airlines will if nothing had happened, but today I could no longer
deal with its pandemic-caused problems by selling breathe ... If something happens to me — know that
it’s an assassination attempt.”
Israel Defense Forces Offi cer to be
Reprimanded for Injuring Activists
An Israel Defense Forces offi cer faces reprimand
aft er he was fi lmed injuring and teargassing left -wing
activists in the West Bank — including video that
showed him kneeling on an activist’s neck, JTA
reported. Th e activists were bringing water to a Palestinian
community in the South Hebron Hills, a contested
area in the southern West Bank.

Th e offi cer, whose identity is not known, was seen
in one scene pushing an activist off a road and down
to the ground.

Th e IDF called the activists’ conduct a “violent
demonstration,” saying the protesters were blocking
the road to a nearby Israeli settlement. But in a state-
ment the next day, the IDF said the offi cer “erred and
did not act in a way the situation demanded or that
met the norms of the IDF.” ●
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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