Maher Younes, center, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who served a lengthy jail sentence for killing a soldier, walks with his mother after his release amid promises by the country's ultranationalist National Security Minister to limit any celebrations marking his freedom, in Ara, Israel, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Authorities working to prevent mass celebrations of terrorist’s release, as minister pushes to nullify terrorist’s Israeli citizenship.
By Pesach Benson, TPS
Maher Younes, an Arab-Israeli terrorist and the longest-serving security prisoner in Israel, was released from prison on Thursday morning.
Younes and his cousin, Karim Younes, murdered Cpl. Avraham Bromberg in 1980 as he was on his way to an army base in the Golan.
The two terrorists shot Bromberg, threw him out of a moving car and left him for dead by the side of a road. Bromberg died several days later.
Police forces were deployed in their hometown of ‘Ara, near Haifa, to prevent a repeat of celebrations that occurred after Karim’s release.
The two served 40 years behind bars and are considered Palestinian celebrities as the longest-serving prisoners.
They were given life sentences, but in 2012, then-President Shimon Peres commuted their sentences to 40 years.
Israel’s Interior Ministry is moving to revoke the Younes’s citizenship, which would pave the way for their deportation. Whether the Younes cousins can be stripped of their citizenship and deported is questionable. The law currently allows this if the person holds citizenship in a second country. They only hold Israeli citizenship but could potentially be deported to the Palestinian Authority.
If they are stripped of their citizenship, the two would still be allowed to remain in Israel for a period of time under a different status, such as a temporary resident.
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The two countries have also held joint training exercises between their militaries.