Editing Zeev Sternhell (section)

==Pipe bomb attack==
On 25 September 2008, Sternhell was the victim of a [[pipe bomb]] attack at his home, and was injured in the leg and hospitalized.<ref name="says_3rd_paragraph_long-time_supporter_of_Peace_Now">{{Cite news|title=Israeli peace advocate attacked|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=3 October 2008|author=Rory McCarthy|date=26 September 2008|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/26/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast1 }}</ref> Jerusalem police, who found fliers offering more than 1 million [[shekel]]s (approximately $300,000) to anyone who kills members of [[Peace Now]] at the scene, suspected that he was attacked by right-wing settler extremists for his views. From his hospital bed, Sternhell said that "the very occurrence of the incident goes to illustrate the fragility of Israeli democracy, and the urgent need to defend it with determination and resolve."<ref>[[Philip Weiss]], [https://mondoweiss.net/2008/09/leftwing-israeli-injured-by-pipe-bomb-warns-of-disintegration-of-democracy/?amp 'Wake [Up! (Leftwing Israeli Injured by Pipe-Bomb Warns of ‘Disintegration of Democracy,’)'] [[Mondoweiss]] 25 September 2008</ref>

"On the personal level", he continued, "if the intent was to terrorize, it has to be very clear that I am not easily intimidated; but the perpetrators tried to hurt not only me, but each and every one of my family members who could have opened the door, and for that there is no absolution and no forgiveness."<ref name="Haaretz back to days"/> After his release from the hospital, he said he would continue to voice his opinions. [[French Foreign Minister]] [[Bernard Kouchner]] condemned the attack, saying "The assault on Professor Sternhell is an assault on values of peace and brotherhood that served as an inspiration to Israel's founding fathers."<ref name="glickman">{{Cite news|last=Glickman|first=Aviad|title=Prof. Sternhell: I'll continue to voice my views|publisher=[[Ynetnews]]|access-date=16 May 2018|date=26 September 2008|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3602507,00.html}}</ref> When the investigation was launched, right-wing settler groups made claims that the bombing had been carried out by ''agents provocateurs''.<ref>{{cite news|date=3 October 2008|title=News in Brief|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/news-in-brief-1.254900|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=11 September 2014|quote=The Campaign for Saving the People and the Country claims that the bombing, generally believed to have been carried out by right-wing extremists in response to Sternhell's left-wing political activism, was a provocation aimed at turning public opinion against the settlers to make future evacuations easier. 'The timing and nature of the operation leave no room for doubt it was the work of a provocateur', it wrote. (Ofra Edelman)}}</ref>

In October 2009, Israel police arrested [[Yaakov Teitel|Jack Teitel]], a Florida-born Jewish extremist, for the attack on Sternhell. Israel police revealed that Teitel, who apparently acted alone, also admitted to a string of other terrorist attacks and attempted attacks, including murdering a Palestinian taxi driver and a West Bank shepherd in 1997 and an attack on the home of a [[Messianic Judaism|Messianic Jew]] in the settlement of [[Ariel (city)|Ariel]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|date=2 November 2009|title=Israeli Police Arrest West Bank Settler over Palestinian Killings|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/israeli-police-arrest-west-bank-settler-over-palestinian-killings-1.764683|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=11 September 2014}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author= Amos Harel|author2=Chaim Levinson|date=2 November 2008|title=U.S.-born Jewish terrorist suspected of series of attacks over past 12 years|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-born-jewish-terrorist-suspected-of-series-of-attacks-over-past-12-years-1.4973|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=11 September 2014}}</ref>