The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen says that the school was no ordinary seminary. It was the ideological cradle of the settler movement in the West Bank, which could be the reason it was targeted.
Key figures linked to the school were strongly opposed to Israeli pull-out from Gaza.
Many of its students are on special courses that combine religious study with service in combat units in the Israeli army.
Our editor says that those who gathered at the seminary ahead of the victims' funerals were people who were already opposed to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to engage in talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
This incident will only make stronger their determination to stop any agreements going through, our editor says.
Ever read a news report where the editor injects him,self so prominently into the story?
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