Rehovot's Eyal Karamani Was Asked To Carry Out The Terrorist Attack on Temple Mount

"Three Jewish extremists have been questioned by police for allegedly planning to fire a missile at a mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount in an effort to torpedo this summer's planned unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, police announced Monday.

The three men were part of a group of nine Israeli Jewish suspects arrested over the last month in two separate cases over alleged plans to attack the Temple Mount...

According to police, the three key suspects in the case planned to fire a missile at a mosque on the heavily-guarded Temple Mount in order to thwart this summer's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip. The two men, defined by police as "emotionally unstable" then planned to kill themselves.

Over the last year, Israeli security officials have repeatedly warned of the possibility that Jewish extremists could try to attack the super-sensitive Jerusalem holy site as a way of sabotaging the planned summer pullout from Gaza, an event Israeli security officials refer to as the "doomsday" scenario.

The former head of the domestic Shin Bet security service Avi Dichter has said that coupled with the possibility of an assassination attempt on the life of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the threat of an attack by Jewish extremists on the Temple Mount is of the highest concern among security officials, as Israel prepares to withdraw from Gaza.

With the walled-in compound heavily guarded by police, security officials have warned in the past that Jewish extremists might try to fire a missile or a rocket at the main mosque at the site.

Police said that the prime suspect in the case, 21-year-old Avtalion Kadosh, a Bratslev hassid asked a friend, Eyal Karamani, 23, of the central Israeli city of Rehovot if he could procure a Lau missile and grenades to carry out the attack.

Kadosh then told his family of his plans to attack the Temple Mount, police said.

At a certain point, his brother, Akiva Kadosh, 25, recanted, and refused to cooperate with the plan, the police said.

During this time, the prime suspects in the case allegedly approached criminal elements to get their arms, and visited the Temple Mount as well as nearby rooftops in the Jewish and Muslim Quarters of the Old City as they scouted variance sites for their attack.

In the end, the group picked the rooftop of a nearby yeshiva to fire the missile, police said.

According to police, the two key suspects decided to kill themselves after their planned attack..."

Source: Etgar Lefkovits. Police thwart attack on Temple Mount. JPost.com (17 May 2005) [FullText]