The two men accused were thought to have killed him as part of a revenge attack.
The case became political and it was not carried out because of fear of revenge attacks.
A Syrian officer was also killed in a revenge attack.
Among those they could not rule out was a suicide bomber, a revenge attack or even an insurance scheme.
The next day a number of revenge attacks occurred.
Palestinian officials described the raid here as a revenge attack by Israel.
Elizabeth leads the other convicts in a revenge attack against the men.
Media and news services failed to cover events accurately for fear of revenge attacks.
He was also concerned to prevent the settlers from taking the law into their own hands and launching revenge attacks.
"We will make sure there will be no revenge attacks or anything like that," he said.