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Lebanon's Ayatollah Fadlallah and the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva Attack in Jerusalem
[Institute for Contemporary Affairs/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs] Shimon Shapira - In recent years, an intense effort has been made by American-based academics to portray Ayatollah Mohamad Hussein Fadlallah, the most important religious authority among the Shiites of Lebanon and the Gulf states, as a moderate religious leader. Yet Fadlallah praised the massacre of eight Israeli students at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem.