(JNS.org) Two Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem were indicted Sunday, Sept. 1, on charges of planning to carry out a large-scale terror attack for Hamas at the popular Mamila mall in Jerusalem over the upcoming Jewish holidays, Israel Hayom reported. According to the indictment, Ahmad Rishak, 23, and Ismail Abu Mfalfal, 27, were allegedly in the advanced stages of planning the attack. Hamdi Romana, a 22-year-old Ramallah resident Hamdi Romana, recruited Rishak, who then recruited Mfalfal. Romana, Rishak and Mfalfal were among five men arrested in a joint operation by the Israel Security Agency, the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police, but only Rishak and Mfalfal have so far been indicted. Romana plotted on to assemble a pipe bomb and plant it in a densely populated area with the explicit aim of “killing the maximum number of Jews.” Mfalfal and Rishak were maintenance workers at the Mamilla shopping mall. The men allegedly planned to disguise the bomb like a gift in a box of chocolates, and to put the “gift” in a trash can at the shopping center during one of the upcoming Jewish holidays.