Israel mourns a high-ranking officer killed by gunman Israel mourned Wednesday a police officer from the town of Modiin in central Israel, who was shot dead while driving with his family southwest of Idhna, a village outside Hebron. This incident at the start of the Jewish Passover holiday on Monday was the first deadly attack on an Israeli in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, and came as tensions were soaring over the near-breakdown of US-brokered peace talks. Images