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February 27, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1171894524591&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Shin Bet Arrests Israeli's Killers

[Jerusalem Post] Tovah Lazaroff and Yaakov Katz - Israeli security forces on Monday arrested two Palestinians in Beit Omar in the West Bank who confessed that they stabbed Erez Levanon, 42, to death in a forest outside his home in Bat Ayin on Sunday. Levanon was a popular songwriter and singer who played music for patients in Jerusalem-area hospitals and would entertain for free at bar mitzvas and weddings of those who lacked money. He was a follower of the 18th century Hassidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. In pursuit of the Bratslav tradition of personal prayer, Levanon and others in the community would often go into the forest where he was slain to pray.

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