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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/leader-of-banned-islamic-group-arrested-for-incitement-to-terror/
Top Islamic Cleric in Israel Arrested for Incitement to Terror
(Times of Israel) Islamic cleric Raed Salah, who heads the banned Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was arrested Monday in Umm al-Fahm. Police said Tuesday he was "a central instigator" of incitement to violence and terror. Salah has spearheaded campaigns asserting that "Al-Aqsa [mosque] is in danger," an allegation that was at the heart of last month's violence at the site in Jerusalem. Salah was released from prison in January after serving a nine-month sentence for incitement to violence and racism, after being convicted over a 2007 sermon in which he praised martyrdom for the sake of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque.