Khalil Touame, an Arab student leader at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was sentenced on March 12 to nine months in prison by an Israeli nilitary court. Touame, a member of the Israeli Socialist Organization and secretary of the Arab Students Committee on the campus, was charged with having "harbored a subversive," Ahmed Kalifah. Kalifah was sentenced to two years in prison for "activities endangering the security of Israel."
Maariv, the most widely read evening paper in Israel, recounted the nature of Kalifah's alleged "subversive" activities January 14:
"Kalifah, described by the authorities as the chief theoretician of the terror groups [sic] in Judea and Sameria, is suspected of sowing ferment among the civilian population in the West Bank and writing leaflets advocating noncoopera-
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