Teenager sentenced to two years in jail for arson attack on Jewish school in Montreal

A teenager in Canada has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to firebombing a Jewish elementary school, an attack apparently carried out in retaliation for Israel's killing of Palestinians. The sentencing of  19-year-old Sleiman Elmerhebi came nine months after the arson attack on the United Talmud Torahs school in Montreal. Prosecutors had described the incident as an act of terrorism. Elmerhebi last month pleaded guilty to arson and said he committed the crime after reacting emotionally to what he had seen on television about the Middle East. A note left at the school after the fire said the attack was in retaliation for Israel's killing of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Canada has been named one of the five countries with the highest rates of anti-Semitic incidents, along with France, Britain, Russia and Germany.