An Arab man from Gaza granted humanitarian passage through Israel for medical treatment used the opportunity to run away and hide in an Israeli-Arab town. Security forces launched a wide-scale search, fearing the man was on his way to carry out a terror attack after he evaded security forces at the Erez Crossing. He was later apprehended in the northern Israel town of Nazareth. The man had been given authorization to travel through Israel to Egypt for medical treatment. In the past, at least one Gazan woman receiving medical treatment at an Israeli hospital was caught trying to carry out a suicide bombing. Radical Leftist Rabbi Arrested For Preventing Evacuation of Wounded Jew Reform Rabbi Arik Asherman, who heads the radical leftist group Rabbis for Human Rights was arrested in Jerusalem Thursday for inciting local Arabs to riot against Israeli archeological digs and preventing the evacuation of a wounded Jewish resident. Asherman was detained Wednesday after taking part in a protest against archeological digs in the Shiloah (Silwan) neighborhood of Jerusalem, below the Western Wall to the east. The leftist and Arab protestors clashed with members of the Elad organization, which oversees the digs. Asherman was first offered a deal by the police to agree not to approach the area for two weeks, but when he refused he was arrested. Rabbis for Human Rights condemned the arrest, and accused police of undermining “efforts to expose the unfair treatment and violations of human rights in the Palestinian territories.”
