News Archive: Rehovot man arrested for fabricating accounts of attack

"Monday, November 18, 2002 -- Arye Mariner, 30, of Rehovot, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of giving spurious "eyewitness" interviews to the media immediately after the Friday night attack in Hebron just for personal self-aggrandizement, police announced Sunday.

Over the weekend, Mariner, who was not even in Hebron when the attack occurred, was repeatedly interviewed on Israeli television stations, claiming that he was at the scene of ... "

Source: Etgar Lefkovits. Rehovot man arrested for fabricating accounts of attack. Jerusalem Post (18 November 2002) p.3 [Search FullText]