Extremist settlers are commemorating a decade since the death of Baruch Goldstein. On Purim 1994, Goldstein killed 29 Muslims during prayer services at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs before being killed himself. Signs were posted in Jerusalem announcing the memorial in the settlement of Kiryat Arba.
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