By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service Security services recently arrested four Israeli Arabs on suspicion that they were recruited by Hamas to serve as the terror organization’s agents, it was released for publication Thursday.
The four, who live in the Galilee and were students at universities in Jordan, were allegedly recruited while on a pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. Police and the Shin Bet security service suspect they were trained by Hamas and were ordered to gather intelligence, which Hamas apparently intended to use to help plan terror attacks against Israeli targets. Man who drove Dolphinarium bomber convicted of assisting murder The taxi driver who drove the Dolphinarium suicide bomber to his target was convicted Thursday of being an accomplice to murder, an accomplice to grievous bodily harm and of assisting in keeping someone in Israel illegally, Army Radio reported. The taxi driver, Mahmoud Nadi, drove the bomber to the beachfront nightclub on the first Friday night of June, 2001. The bomber then mingled with a large group of young people waiting to enter the Dolphinarium, and set off a bomb that killed 20 people and wounded about 100. The radio quoted the Tel Aviv District Court judges who convicted Nadi as writing that despite his suspicions that he was transporting a terrorist, he didn’t do anything to stop the deadly attack. No sentence was reported. At the time, the Dolphinarium bombing was the single deadliest terror attack since the beginning of the intifada. The blast took place on a beachside strip with many restaurants, nightclubs and coffee shops that are typically crowded on Friday nights. Many of the people wounded and killed in the attack were teenage immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
