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- ↑ פרשות היעלמות הילדים שהסעירו את ישראל – וואלה! חדשות
- ↑ Murder of teen in Israel provokes national anguish
- ↑ חדשות – בארץ nrg – נקצב עונשם של רוצחי דני כץ
- ↑ "Ynet – הודעת שגיאה – דף הבית".
- ↑ בג"ץ דחה את ערעורה של משפחת דני כץ על קציבת עונש רוצחיו משה כץ נגד נשיא המדינה (נמחק), בפסקדין, אתר המשפט הישראלי
- 1 2 נדחה ערעור רוצחי הילד דני כץ לפני 22 שנים; ביהמ"ש העליון: המניע לרצח – לאומני – גלובס
- ↑ Retrial again finds five guilty of 1983 Danny Katz murder – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
- ↑ Life imprisonment for murderers of Danny Katz in 1983 – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
- ↑ אביו של דני כץ בכנסת: "פרס פרע חוב בחירות"
- ↑ Peres defends decision to reduce jail time for Danny Katz's murderers – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
- ↑ Peres Reduces Jail Terms of Israeli-Arab Terrorists – Politics & Gov't – News – Israel National News
- ↑ נדחתה בקשת רוצחי דני כץ לניכוי שליש מהמאסר
