The World - News from Sept. 16, 1986
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Avraham Shalom, head of Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, has been replaced almost three months after he was pardoned in the 1984 beating deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers and agreed to resign, legal sources and Israeli newspapers said. The secret nature of Shin Bet makes it virtually impossible to confirm internal personnel movements, and his successor was not identified. In June, President Chaim Herzog pardoned Shalom, two legal aides and another Shin Bet official in connection with the 1984 incident, even though no formal charges were made.
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