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Ra’anan, who was in the dining room, barely recognized the<br />

sound of her husband’s voice, whom in their thirty-five years<br />

of marriage, had never been heard to raise his voice. Seconds<br />

later, the rabbi, covered in blood, staggered out of the<br />

bedroom, while the terrorist, who held a long and bloody<br />

butcher knife in one hand, tried with the other hand to drag<br />

him back into the bedroom. Stunned, Chaya screamed while<br />

she instinctively tried to pull her husband out of the terrorist’s<br />

grasp. A tug-of-war ensued until finally the terrorist let go,<br />

not before hurdling the butcher knife at the mortally wounded<br />

rabbi and setting the trailer on fire. It was too late to save her<br />

husband. Chaya, being a nurse, knew from the gaping wound<br />

in her husband’s main artery that his condition was fatal.<br />

Seeing the flames around her it was now up to her to alert the<br />

six other families living in the neighboring inflammable<br />

trailers before they too went up in flames. Chaya threw open<br />

the door and shouted, “Fire! Fire!”<br />

The Times article continued:<br />

The officials added that Sarsour had told interrogators that he<br />

had planned to throw Molotov cocktails at an army post near<br />

Tel Rumeida, but found it vacant. Climbing the fence of the<br />

Jewish settlement, he spied the rabbi through the window of<br />

his mobile home, broke in, stabbed Rabbi Raanan to death and<br />

fled back to Palestinian-controlled Hebron, the Israelis said.<br />

Days later, the Israeli officials said, Sarsour reported the<br />

killing to Hamas officials, who inducted him into the elite<br />

military wing and taught him grenade throwing. On Sept. 30,<br />

Yom Kippur, Sarsour made a grenade attack on an army post<br />

in Hebron, wounding 14 Israeli soldiers and 8 Palestinian<br />

passers-by, the Israelis said. The Israelis have arrested four<br />

suspected accomplices. The Palestinians said they had<br />

arrested two more. In another twist, the Palestinians asserted

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