Mr Meyer is the first Israeli to be held in administrative detention, although thousands of Palestinians have been held without trial in recent years.
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Shin Bet declined to comment on whether Meyer was connected to that attack.
No details were provided on any charges against him.
Media reports earlier suggested that the attorney general had given permission for the authorities to take such action against three suspected extremists. Of the 15 firebombings of Palestinian homes in the West Bank since 2008 by suspected Jewish terrorists, no assailants have been caught, according to a report on Israel’s Channel 2 cited by the Times of Israel.
According Yesh Din, which investigates law enforcement in the West Bank, 85 percent of West Bank cases involving suspected Jewish crimes against Arabs are closed due to police failure to locate suspects or find sufficient evidence to indict.
On Monday, Israeli authorities arrested Meir Ettinger, a leading Jewish extremist and the grandson of the late Meir Kahane, whose anti-Arab political movement, Kach, was banned in 1994 and eventually designated as a terrorist group.
Shin Bet said Mr Meyer was suspected of attacks on Palestinian property, June’s arson attack on the Christian church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes on the Sea of Galilee and an attack on another church in Jerusalem.
Police said Ettinger, who is 23, was suspected of “nationalist crimes”, but did not accuse him of direct involvement in last week’s firebombing of a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, in which a toddler was burned to death.
Ettinger was arrested on accusations of unlawful association and plotting a crime, said his lawyer, Yuval Zemer.
The hearing was held in camera. Ali’s mother and father, Riham and Saad, and his four-year-old brother Ahmad suffered severe burns and remain in critical condition as a result of the same attack.
Bernard Avishai, who teaches at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Dartmouth College, joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to discuss the issue of Jewish extremism, Israel’s crackdown and the future of the extremist subculture.
A Jewish Star of David was spray-painted on a wall along with the words “revenge” and “long live the Messiah”. As a result, it is not unusual that police are responding to extremist attacks with this method.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on erev Shabbos Nachamu spoke with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and said that everyone in Israel was shocked by the reprehensible terrorism against the Darawshe family.
While there are some indications that Israel is taking a harsher approach to Jewish terrorism following the Duma attack, it remains to be seen whether the crackdown lasts or whether it’s a passing response to public outrage that fades once the country’s attention moves on. “The gay community and also the Arabs”.
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“We will not forget – we will not forgive the massacre”, an AFP journalist reported the marchers as chanting.
