(Ma'ariv-Hebrew, 6Feb13) Amihai Etali - The graffiti painted on the stores of the Casbah in Hebron over the years has been cleaned up in recent weeks in a joint operation by Palestinians, Israeli police, and local Jewish residents. Twelve years ago, at the beginning of the Second Intifada, the IDF closed all the Palestinian stores near the Cave of the Patriarchs and the Jewish community in Hebron after a series of fatal terrorist attacks that culminated in the murder by a Palestinian sniper of a Jewish baby girl, Shalhevet Pas. The new police commander at the Cave of the Patriarchs, Barak Arusi, convinced both Jews and Arabs to join in the clean-up. While a number of European activists proceeded to paint new slogans, these were cleaned up immediately.
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