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Police: Tel Aviv gunman planned to attack kindergartens

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Arab-Israeli who killed two Israelis in a shooting attack in a Tel Aviv bar on New Year’s Day planned to attack kindergartens in the city, according to a police investigation. In its report released last Sunday, the Israel Police also looked at its failures during the weeklong manhunt for Nashat Milhem, including dismissing a call to the police emergency number reporting a sighting on a public bus heading for northern Israel and the failure to make public a photo of the shooter until 36 hours after the attack. Milhem, 31, killed two young men and injured six when he shot up a bar in central Tel Aviv on Jan. 1. He then murdered a taxi driver who transported him from the scene of the crime. He was killed in a shootout with police near his home in the Umm al-Fahm area a week after the attack. According to the report, two days after the attack, Milhem had planned to “carry out an attack on Tel Aviv kindergartens,” but the gunman “felt he was being chased” and instead of carrying out the attacks he “focused on survival.”

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