Jack Tytell’s remand has been extended by three weeks.

From Ynet news:

As for the explosive device in the Ortiz family home, Teitel explained that their activity was worse than the murder of Jews, and the Jews following them have no afterlife.

Ynet news has disturbing findings regarding the Tytell case:

Despite these clear findings, the recommendation was to shelve the case. The suspected murderer was put on trial only 12 years later. In the meantime, he continued his campaign of violence and attempted murders, which luckily did not claim additional lives.

Documents obtained by Ynet from the thick investigation material against Teitel reveal an almost incomprehensible picture. The police and the Shin Bet had signs which would be hard to interpret in two different ways, and yet the murderer got away. The transcripts from the investigations of the Jewish terrorists, who had murdered Arab taxi driver Samir Akram Balbisi in Jerusalem even before that incident, are also revealed.

In the same document summarizing the investigation on October 1997, three months after Musaf’s murder, in a clause titled “matters which have yet to be completed, Shitrit referred to Teitel alone and to the fact that he had managed to leave Israel “for an unknown reason,” but wrote that the day he entered Israel he would be interrogated.

He also noted that a letter had been sent to the police representatives in the United States in order to collect details about him. The Israel Police were apparently about to lay their hands on the culprit, but the bottom line comes two clauses later: “At this stage, and as we have no findings and evidence leading to the suspect, we recommended shelving the case.” The reason: “An unknown criminal.”

From Haaretz:

As reported in Haaretz last month, Teitel was also suspected of carrying out an attack in the Jordan Valley in March in which two traffic cops were murdered. It is not known what information the police found to suggest that Teitel was behind that killing, but he was questioned about the matter repeatedly. However, he did not confess.

During one interrogation, he said that his home in Shvut Rachel lies only six kilometers from the road where the two were killed, but he has no information on the attack. On another occasion, he said that shooting the policemen would have been more his style than the shooting attack at the gay youth club in Tel Aviv, but he did not do it.