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Israeli nationalist leader in spotlight over 1996 Lebanon attack

By Reuters | Jan. 6, 2015

JERUSALEM - Naftali Bennett, leader of an ultra-nationalist Israeli party and a potential future defence minister, is in the spotlight over his indirect role in an army shelling attack that killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians nearly two decades ago.

Bennett, whose Jewish Home party is in Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition and is expected to perform well in elections in March, was a junior commando officer during Israel's 1996 Lebanon offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas.

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