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The opening as it read in 2005

Ami Popper , a 21-year-old former dishonorably-discharged soldier, put on his army uniform and asked men waiting at a bus stop in a southern Israeli town for their identity cards.¹ After confirming they were Arabs he lined them up and opened fire, killing seven. Within an hour, he was arrested by Israeli police. Israel Radio reported that he claimed to have been distraught because his girlfriend had decided to leave him.² After his crime, Arab riots led to the deaths of seven more Palestinians, and 700 injured at the hands of IDF forces. Popper was charged and convicted with seven murders in March 1991 . The murders, followed by his incarceration, have made Ami Popper an important symbol for the Jewish Fundamentalist movement. He has married the adopted daughter of Rabbi Meir Kahane 's son, Benjamin Kahane, leader of the Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives) movement. Kahane Chai claims that only Jews have a right to live in the Holy Land. Popper's sentence is the subject of regular appeals by settlers and other Jewish Fundamentalists who demand his release as a "political prisoner." In February, 1999 Popper's sentence was commuted from six life terms to 40 years. He could be released on parole in 33 years.³

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Ami Popper ( ; born 1969) is an Israeli convicted of murder . Popper, a former dishonorably-discharged soldier, put on his Israeli army uniform on 20 May 1990 and asked men waiting at a bus stop in the Israeli town of Rishon Lezion for their identity cards. After confirming they were Arabs he lined them up and opened fire, killing seven. Within an hour, he was arrested by Israeli police . After his act, riots by Palestinians led to the deaths of seven more Palestinians at the hands of Israeli security forces, with 700 injured. Israel Radio reported that Popper claimed to have been distraught because his girlfriend had decided to leave him. Later he told police that he had been raped by an Arab when he was 13 and had committed these killings out of shame and a desire for revenge, however he later stated this was untrue. Popper was charged and convicted of seven acts of murder in March 1991. In prison he became religious and in June 1993 he married a Canadian woman from a family of Kach activists. In February 1999 Popper's sentence was commuted from seven life terms to 40 years. Currently he is expected to be released on parole in 2023, after 33 years in prison [ according to who ?]. On 17 January 2007, while on a 48-hour furlough , Popper was involved in a car accident caused by him crossing a solid line. His wife and one of his sons were killed in the accident. Popper himself was moderately injured. Israeli police reported that Popper's license had expired in 1999. Police reports say Ami Popper, convicted of murdering Arab workers in 1990, was driving without a license. While on a 48-hour furlough from prison he veered from his lane, hitting oncoming traffic. Initial reports indicate family's children were not wearing seatbelts in the backseat. Right wing and Orthodox politicians in Israel have demanded his release along with other Israeli prisoners who were convicted of murder or other violence committed against Palestinians, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners who committed murder or violence against Israelis.

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Ami Popper ( ; born 1969) is an Israeli convicted of murder .

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Ami Popper ( ; born 1969) is an Israeli mass murderer , convicted for the killing of 7 people in Rishon Lezion on May 20, 1990. Known as the Oyoun Qara massacre to Palestinians , for unknown reasons Popper killed and wounded Palestinian men at a bus stop in Rishon Lezion, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment .

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Israeli mass murderer (born 1969) Ami Popper ( ; born June 2, 1969) is an Israeli mass murderer , convicted for the killing of 7 people in Rishon Lezion on May 20, 1990. Known as the Oyoun Qara massacre to Palestinians , for unknown reasons Popper killed and wounded Palestinian men at a bus stop in Rishon Lezion, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment , later commuted to 40 years.

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Israeli mass murderer (born 1969) Ami Popper ( Hebrew : עמי פופר ; born 2 June 1969 in Rishon Lezion ) is an Israeli mass murderer and Jewish terrorist who committed the Oyoun Qara massacre on 20 May 1990, killing 7 Palestinians at a bus stop in Rishon Lezion , Israel . Popper was arrested and charged with 7 counts of murder for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment , later commuted to 40 years. After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law , The New York Times , 16 May 2024 marks the 26th anniversary of the Oyoun Qara massacre' , Ma'an News Agency 19 May 2016.

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