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Encyclopedia > Danny Katz

1. Danny Katz, (01/03/1969 - 12/08/1983), is considered the first casuality of the intifadah, the Palestinian uprising. On December 8, 1983, at the age of 14, Danny Katz was kidnapped in Haifa, Israel. His badly beaten corpse was found a few days later in [[Carmel]. In 1991, the five Arab men who confessed to the crime, were sentenced to life imprisonment for abducting, murdering, and sexually assaulting 14-year-old Danny Katz. According to the original indictment against the five, they met a few days before the murder and decided to kidnap and kill a Jewish child. They received a retrial in 1999. Intifada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from Arabic: انتفاضة shaking off) is an Islamic term for uprising. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


2. Danny Katz is a Jewish columnist who writes in the entertainment section of The Age. His column is also syndicated in The West Australian. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. ... The West Australian (often simply called The West) is Perths only locally edited daily newspaper, and is owned by ASX-listed West Australian Newspapers Limited. ...


External links

  • Article about Danny Katz and those convicted of his murder
  • A collection of his 20 most recent columns

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Katz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (261 words)
"Katz" as a Jewish pedigree, a common Jewish surname derived from Cohen.
Katz (phoneme), an exclamation used in the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism; also this phoneme refers to "勝つ" "to won", and "カツ" "a cutlet"
KATZ, a radio station broadcasting at 1600 kHz on the AM band, licensed to St.
Stanford Magazine > May/June 2002 > Feature Story > Danny Pearl (2509 words)
Danny was a compassionate reporter working to help his readers understand an increasingly complex and dangerous world.
Three years before Danny’s abduction in Karachi, I was reporting for the Associated Press, driving in a government convoy through the embattled streets of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
Danny Pearl, a casualty of the same war, was equally heroic.
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