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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/4350/full/4350/mk-yael-dayan-hit-by-hot-tea/ <br /><br /> <b>MK Yael Dayan hit by hot tea</b> <br /> Saturday, October 26, 1996 | by <p>JERUSALEM (JTA)—Labor Knesset member Yael Dayan suffered burns on her face and chest after a religious Jew threw a cup of tea </p> <br /><br /><p>Television crews covering the tour taped the attack.<br /><br /> The assailant, identified as Yisrael Lederman, 60, a religious resident of Jerusalem, escaped.<br /><br /> Police said he slipped out of the Hebron police station after being taken there by soldiers.<br /><br /> After the incident, right-wing demonstrators kept crowding around the left-wing legislators.<br /><br /> "Now it was tea, but it could have been acid, or a bullet," Dayan said, before turning to the protesters.<br /><br /> "Shame on you, it's only one year since [Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin was killed," she told the protesters.<br /><br /> Dayan continued the tour with her colleagues, meeting with Palestinian officials and female activists in Hebron.<br /><br /> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Dayan to express shock at the attack.</p> <p> </p>

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