Jailbreak in Israel, a Major Failure of Security, Threatens To Ignite Firestorm
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Israelis and Palestinians are bracing for the next big clash, this time resulting not from another setback for the Arabs, but from what West Bank Arabs and Gazans hail as a great, even heroic, success.
As Rosh Hashanah started in Israel this week, the country awoke to one of its worst security failures in recent memory. Six Arab prisoners managed to escape the high security Gilboa jail in a Shawshank Redemption-like caper, though one wouldn’t want to carry the analogy too far.
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