Police seize thousands from family of Mercaz Harav attacker

Police have raided an East Jerusalem home that had belonged to the terrorist behind the deadly shooting of eight Israeli students at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in 2008.

The funeral of Avraham David Moses, 16, of Efrat, one of eight students who were killed in the March 6, 2008, shooting attack at the Yeshivat Mercaz Harav in Jerusalem (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90)
The funeral of Avraham David Moses, 16, of Efrat, one of eight students who were killed in the March 6, 2008, shooting attack at the Yeshivat Mercaz Harav in Jerusalem (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90)

Authorities say they seized NIS 43,000 ($11,850) in cash that had been given to the family of Alaa Abu Dheim by the Hamas terror group, as part of stipends paid to relatives of terrorists, according to Hebrew media reports.

Abu Dheim was killed by responding security forces during the attack.

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