Israel frees son of Palestinian peacenik from jail

27 January 2016, 7:44 pm

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Mohammed Sabateen, the teenage son of Bethlehem peace activist Ziad Sabateen, is released from an Israeli prison and is heading home after reaching a plea deal with Israeli prosecutors.

Sabateen had been convicted of one count of stone throwing and sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to pay an NIS 6,000 fine, according to Lonny Baskin of the Path of Hope and Peace organization. He was arrested in November.

A group of Jewish Israeli activists, notably Hadassah Froman spoke on Sabateen’s behalf during the trial, and asked the judge for leniency in the case. Froman is the wife of the late Rabbi Menachem Froman, a prominent figure in the settlement movement, and mother-in-law of recent terror victim Michal Froman.

— Judah Ari Gross