Jerusalem city hall sues bilingual school arsonists for damages

3 November 2015, 9:31 pm

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Jerusalem municipality sues from three people who set fire to the Max Rayne Hand in Hand School last November, seeking a total of NIS 518,000 in damages. The school fosters Jewish-Arab coexistence and teaches in both Arabic and Hebrew.

The sum includes reparation for physical destruction to the institution and its contents, but also payment for the psychological support required in the aftermath of the attack by the children of the school.

Yitzhak Gabai and brothers Nahman and Shlomo Twitto were all convicted of starting the fire and spray-painting on the school’s walls racist messages such as “There is no coexistence with cancer” and “Death to the Arabs.”