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Two Arabs Sentenced in Hamas Plot to Attack Jerusalem Mall
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob and Yaakov Lappin - Hamas members Ahmad Rishek, 23, and Ismail Abu Mfalfal, 27, of eastern Jerusalem were sentenced to 10 and 8 years respectively at the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday for planning a massive terror attack at Jerusalem's outdoor Mamilla mall during the High Holidays in 2013. They were to smuggle a bomb into Israel making use of their Israeli ID cards. They and other Hamas members from Ramallah and Jerusalem were led by Hamdi Romana, in whose Ramallah home an explosives lab was uncovered, the Israel Security Agency said. Rishak and Mfalfal were employed as maintenance workers at the mall. Mfalfal assisted in providing iron balls for the bomb in order to increase its lethality.