(JTA) - A month into the cease-fire declared by Palestinian terrorist groups, the fear of suicide bombers has been replaced by fear of kidnappers. Concern has intensified following the abduction last month of taxi driver Eliahu Gurel - who was rescued from Ramallah by IDF commandos - and the murder of soldier Oleg Sheichat, who was abducted in the Galilee. This week, authorities were searching for two missing teenagers: Dana Bennet, 18, a waitress from Tiberias, who disappeared on Thursday, and Eliezer Zussia, a 19-year-old American yeshiva student studying in Jerusalem, who disappeared Sunday.
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