Slain U.S. journalist Sotloff also had Israeli citizenship: official

[rss]

"Cleared for publication: Steven Sotloff was #Israel citizen RIP," tweeted Paul Hirschson, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. Islamic State, an insurgent group active in Syria and Iraq, on Tuesday published footage of Sotloff's execution, which it called retaliation for U.S. Sotloff's death was extensively covered by Israeli media, which identified the 31-year-old reporter as Jewish and an occasional contributor having withheld such observations since Islamic State an**unced he could be killed two weeks ago.

أكثر... (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/slain-u-journalist-sotloff-had-israeli-citizenship-official-101903858.html)