Gush Emunim Underground

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Gush Emunim Underground was a militant organization formed by prominent members of the Israeli political movement Gush Emunim, that existed from 1979-1984.

In 1983, its members were involved in a retaliation attack after the murder of a yeshivah student in Hebron. In broad daylight, two men entered the Islamic College of Hebron, spraying bullets and tossing a grenade. They murdered three students and wounded thirty-three. The group was best known, however, for masterminding a failed attempt at destroying the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Shin Bet agents arrested the members during an attempted bus bombing in 1984 and during interrogation discovered the group's plot to blow up the pillars of the Dome of the Rock. Three of the men were sentenced to life in prison for the Islamic College attack. Controversially, their sentences were commuted three times, so they left prison in less than seven years.

References

See also

• "The Evolution of Gush Emunim" by Ian S. Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
• Fundamentalism, Terrorism, and Democracy: The Case of the Gush Emunim Underground by Ehud Sprinzak, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1986

See also:

• Bassam Shakaa

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