The Naftali Fraenkel Rewards for Justice Act

S.2577
Introduced: 
July 9, 2014
113
Second
July 29, 2014
Passed in Senate

This bill would authorize the secretary of state to offer up to $5 m. to any individual with information that leads to the arrest or conviction of the perpetrators of the kidnapping and subsequent killing of 3 Israeli settler teenagers on 6/12/14. The 3 were abducted while hitchhiking home from school in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc near Hebron and their bodies subsequently found on 6/30, approximately 15 miles from where they were last seen. (See the Quarterly Update in JPS 173 for more on the kidnappings and their aftermath.)

2 cosponsors (1R, 1D).

See also: S. 2579 of 7/9/14, H.R. 5 041 of 7/9/14, and H. Res. 642 of 6/25/14.

Last major action: 7/29/14 Passed in the Senate by unanimous consent.

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