Murder of Shalhevet Pass

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Shalhevet Pass

Shalhevet Tehiya Pass (2000 - March 26, 2001) (Template:Lang-he) was an Israeli infant victim of a terrorist attack. Shalhevet was shot in the head and killed by a Palestinian sniper while seated in her stroller on the streets of Hebron, where she and her family lived. The bullet which killed Shalhevet then hit the leg of her father, Yitzchak Pass, who was pushing the stroller. Israeli investigators [1] believed the snipers were intentionally targeting the baby.

The murder of Shalhevet Pass, which came relatively early in the Al-Aqsa Intifada, produced vocal outrage in Israel and abroad.

After the murder

In July 2003 Yitzhak Pass was arrested together with his brother in law, Matti Shvu, when 10 pounds of explosives were found in his car. It was suspected at the time that the two belonged to an underground Jewish terror cell. (8/19/03 NYT) Both were convicted of possessing the explosives, and sentenced to 15 months. They appealed to the Supreme Court, but the court rejected their appeal and extended their sentences to 24 months. The police had suspected that the two belonged to an organised terror cell that planned attacks on Arabs, but those charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence. (Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2004) They were released from prison on June 12, 2005. (Jerusalem Post, June 14)

See also

• Children and minors in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Al-Aqsa Intifada
• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2001

External links

• Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs profile
• Israeli Department of Education profile
• Ha'aretz article on the arrest of Shalhevet's suspected killer, Sudki Zaro
• "Israelis Worry About Terror, By Jews Against Palestinians", 8/19/03 NYT A1, available on Westlaw at 2003 WLNR 5682848.
• Critique of original AP report on the incident