2 Palestinians sentenced to 18 years in prison for stabbing elderly women

Two East Jerusalem residents are sentenced to 18 years in prison for stabbing two elderly Jewish women in the capital last year.

The two were sentenced by the Jerusalem District Court for attempted murder, while a third man involved in the attack received a 25-month prison term for conspiracy to commit a crime and obstruction of justice.

The three, all residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, were all minors at the time of the attack last May.

In the May 10 attack, a group of five elderly Israelis were walking along the Armon Hanatziv promenade in the capital — in an area of the park known as the Peace Forest — when two Arab teenagers wearing masks pulled out knives and the “wooden handle of an ax” and attacked two of the women before fleeing the scene, police said at the time.

The victims, aged 82 and 86, were hospitalized in moderate condition. One of the women was a Holocaust survivor.