[ReformJudaismMagazine] This article is adapted from Chapter 11 of Edwin Black's latest investigative book, Financing the Flames: How Tax- Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terror in Israel.
For convicted Palestinians in Israeli prisons, terrorism pays. The more heinous the act of violence and the longer the sentence, the higher their salaries--and the cost is subsidized by American taxpayers.
Israeli Evyatar Borovsky, 31, was a therapeutic clown with a big heart. His life mission was to inject comic diversion into those who needed it most--hospitalized children. In his pocket he always carried two puppet eyes. He'd just slip them on the fingers, show his lustrous smile, and a child would laugh. All the children, including his own five kids, adored him.
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