(NEWS) Nazareth Imam Indicted For Fomenting Violence, Terrorism

"Nazim Mahmoud Salim charged with supporting terrorism on web, praising al-Qaida; implicated by Yafim Weinstein murder suspects.

An imam from a Nazareth mosque, Nazim Mahmoud Salim, was indicted on Sunday in Nazareth District Court for incitement to violence and supporting a terror organization. He was arrested nearly one month ago by the Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) and Israel Police.

Salim was originally arrested after one of the suspects in the November 2009 murder of taxi driver Yafim Weinstein told investigators that the imam's sermons were what incited him to commit the murder."

(NEWS) Nazareth Residents Indifferent To Terror Cell

"Northern city appears unfazed by indictments filed against seven young men who carried out religiously-motivated attacks. 'They belong to a short-lived organization,' says local resident. 'You won't hear anyone preaching violence here – neither at the mosques nor at the churches'

Three Nazareth residents were indicted Monday for the murder of taxi driver Yefim Weinstein in November 2009. Another four were charged with other serious offenses, but the Nazareth street appears calm and the he indictments filed against the seven young men at the northern city's District Court did not turn into the talk of the day in Nazareth.

'The fact that these are small families and that the young men belong to a short-lived organization is the reason for the street's disregard,' said Mazen, a Christian resident of the city who is in touch with Muslim and Christian religious officials."