To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (60035 ) 10/7/2000 11:00:53 AM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Respond to of 99985 *** OT **** Arab Mob injuring innocent US Students traveling in Jerusalem But as the young Americans, all wearing yarmulkes, rode in an Arab's taxi through the Arab neighborhood of Wadi al Joz, just northeast of the old walled city, rocks rained against their car. They looked out, as they recalled later, and saw a crowd of Palestinian youths blocking the road and closing in on them. A stone crashed through the back window and Mr. Pollock's head was gashed. Then all of the taxi's windows were shattered in a volley of rocks, and the terrified Americans tried to huddle down and cover their faces. The doors were jerked open, they said, and they were dragged out by the mob and beaten. Mr. Pollock and Mr. Feibusch somehow broke away and fled. But Mr. Grossman was hurled to the ground, stabbed twice in the right thigh and beaten by the crowd with fists, feet and stones. "I remember two strong hands holding my head and a rock coming down again and again on my head," Mr. Grossman told The Associated Press. "I thought I was going to die."nytimes.com .... or burn and destroy Jewish Holly sitesnytimes.com An Israeli border policeman bled to death inside the compound last weekend, after Palestinian gunmen barred Israeli medics from reaching the compound for several hours. ............. One group set fire to one of the shacks in the compound and in the domed tomb. Palestinian firefighters doused the flames. Palestinian teen-agers climbed atop the tomb and hit it with hammers. Others ripped apart Hebrew texts. It was unclear if the books were holy writings, but the army acknowledged that the troops had left some sacred Hebrew texts behind. Some Jews believe the site is the tomb of the biblical patriarch, although most archaeologists ridicule that claim.