Editing Ami Popper (section)

==Conviction and aftermath==
Popper was charged and convicted of seven acts of murder in March 1991, and he was sentenced to seven terms of [[life imprisonment]]. While in prison Popper became devoutly religious, and in June 1993 he married a [[History of the Jews in Canada|Canadian-Jewish]] woman from a family of [[Kach and Kahane Chai|Kach]] activists. Popper and his wife were granted [[conjugal visit]]s, and they had three children. In 1999, his sentence was reduced to 40 years imprisonment by a [[Presidential pardon|presidential amnesty]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Jewish Israeli seeks 'pardon' like Palestinian prisoners |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-israeli-seeks-pardon-like-palestinian-prisoners/ |website=[[The Times of Israel]] |date=2013-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602140619/https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-israeli-seeks-pardon-like-palestinian-prisoners/ |archive-date=2019-06-02 |url-status=live |last1=Shmulovich |first1=Michal}}</ref><ref name=APAP>Ami Pedahzur, Arie Perliger, [https://books.google.com/books?id=X5D5vKGjU2EC&pg=PA151 ''Jewish Terrorism in Israel''], Columbia University press 2009 p.151-</ref> Popper was initially imprisoned in [[Maasiyahu Prison]], and was placed in the Torani cellblock, a special cellblock for religious inmates. Prisoners there pray three times a day and spend most of the day studying the [[Torah]] and other sacred texts. At one point, his cellmate was former minister [[Shlomo Benizri]]. After Benizri's release, Popper's influence in the Torani bloc grew, and he began harassing former President [[Moshe Katsav]], serving a seven-year sentence for rape and other sexual offenses, as Katsav had refused Popper's request for a pardon while he was president. According to the [[Israel Prison Service]], Popper had verbally abused Katsav and sent other inmates to harass him. In October 2012, Popper was transferred to the maximum-security [[Ayalon Prison]].<ref name=Kubovich/><ref name=Raanan/> [[Right wing]] and [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] politicians in Israel have demanded his release along with other Israeli prisoners who were convicted of murder or other violence committed against Palestinians, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners who committed murder or violence against Israelis.

On 17 January 2007, while on a 48-hour [[furlough]] from prison, Popper was involved in a [[car accident]] he caused by crossing a solid line, hitting oncoming traffic. His wife and one of his sons were killed in the accident. Popper himself was moderately injured. Police reported that Popper's driver's license had expired in 1999,<ref name=ynet>{{cite web |title=Wife, son of Arab workers' murderer die in accident  |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3354022,00.html |website=[[Ynet]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207205145/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3354022,00.html |archive-date=2022-12-07 |url-status=live |last1=Ochion |first1=Meir |publisher=YnetNews.Com}}</ref> and that he was driving illegally without a license. Initial reports indicate Popper's children were not wearing seatbelts in the backseat.

Popper later remarried and then divorced. In May 2013, he married his third wife, a woman known only as "M" who had previously made headlines by allegedly allowing her [[Child abuse|children to be abused]]. The couple was married in a small ceremony in [[Jerusalem]], after Popper was granted a prison furlough.<ref>{{cite news |title=Match made in hell: Ami Popper weds mother of abused kids |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4381764,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327174544/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4381764,00.html |archive-date=2023-03-27 |url-status=live |work=[[Ynetnews]] |last1=Doron |first1=Yaron |access-date=27 July 2014}}</ref> Popper's family has been the recipient of financial support from the Israeli [[NGO]] [[Honenu]], and indirectly from tax deductible U.S. donations, according to journalist [[Uri Blau]].<ref name =Blau>[[Uri Blau]], [http://www.haaretz.com/settlementdollars/1.689683 'Haaretz Investigation: U.S. Donors Gave Settlements More Than $220 Million in Tax-exempt Funds Over Five Years'], [[Haaretz]] 7 December 2015.</ref>