known criminals lounging on the beach in front of police station. What can this possibly mean?

for life. All money and property of theirs and their families should be confiscated to pay for their imprisonment.

you are quite right, but the israeli government/civil service/bureaucracy is so riddled with corruption and graft they would rather sit on their hands and let this go on. as long as they are getting a cut of the profits! in fact, imprisonment is too good for these "underworld" (read: lowlife scumbags) figures. they, like kuntar and co, deserve to be hanged when they murder innocent people like this.

We all thought it was a "begoua" and acted thus. Later we were told on the news that it was ONLY two cirminal gangs getting at each other. Not another word about it. So to any person killed or wounded, what does it differ whether the one who blew up a bomb a few meters from the crowded main street at 10 a m was a mere criminal or a politically inspired terrorist? The results are the same.

Why would they need to organise? What do they do?

Another reason to postpone alyah. Israel became more and more violent. People are short tempered, they are yelling and cursing for no reasons and don't get me started with road rages and the way they're driving. It's a third world country, only capable to attract third world migrants (i.e. ukrain, russia, and so on).

Bat Yam has always had the reputation of being a crime center and this ugly incident just confirms it. What is the country coming to when a mother is gunned down in broad daylight in front of her children? What are the police doing about these gun totting gangsters, how can we encourage aliah when we have innocent people being murdered in front of their children?

hang in public one hundred gangsters, drug dealers, child molesters, rapists, pimps and politicians and judges each Friday afternoon for a couple of months or a year. Perhaps five years. And hang a few hundred terrorists each time also. Put it on for t.v.

Israel needs to put these dirtbags out of business. To do this, the husband needs to bring a civil lawsuit against the mobster. A court should easily force the bum to forfeit all his property and bank accounts to the husband. The mobster bastard won't need any of it anyway since he'll be doing 40 years in prison. And if any police are protecting this slime, your time is coming also.