[Jerusalem Post] Yaakov Lappin - In the wake of rioting in the northern Israeli city of Acre, Israeli police said they were hunting for a Muslim man believed to have taken control of the speaker system of a mosque in the Old City on Wednesday evening, at the beginning of Yom Kippur, and who wrongly broadcast that an Arab driver had been killed by a Jewish mob, causing hundreds of Arabs armed with axes and sticks to march on Jewish east Acre. Acre's mayor, Shimon Lancry, told the Jerusalem Post he heard the incitement being blared from the mosque's speakers. "He said one man had been killed and another injured. He called on the [Arab] youths to march on the eastern part of the city," Lancry recalled. "Because of him, 200 masked youths with axes ruined an entire area, and this is unforgivable."
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