An Israeli court has ordered that the head of a Jewish extremist group be kept in detention after his arrest following the burning to death of a Palestinian baby, judicial sources say.
The court in Nazareth, northern Israel, has extended the incarceration of Meir Ettinger until at least Sunday, the sources say.
Ettinger, whose grandfather Rabbi Meir Kahane founded the anti-Arab movement Kach, was arrested on Monday “because of his activities in a Jewish extremist organization,” a spokesman for the Shin Bet internal security service told AFP.
Police say Ettinger, 23, was suspected of “nationalist crimes” but have not accused him of direct involvement in last week’s firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank, in which a toddler was burned to death.
Meir Ettinger, the head of a Jewish extremist group, in court in Nazareth Illit on August 4, 2015, a day after his arrest (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
— AFP
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