Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, March 22, 2018
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Arab Israeli sentenced to 28 months for trying to join IS
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Haifa District Court sentences an Arab Israeli man to 28 months in prison for trying to join the Islamic State terror group’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula.
The verdict says Mohammed ben Ahmed Azzam, a 24-year-old resident of Kafr Manda in northern Israel, became interested in IS in 2015 and decided to join the terror group in 2016 “in order to help the organization’s members fight the State of Israel and liberate Jerusalem and the Al-Asqa Mosque from it.”
Azzam’s sentence was agreed upon as part of a plea deal with prosecutors and will include time served since his arrest in June 2017.
If you’d like to comment, join
The Times of Israel Community.
The Times of Israel Community.
JOIN THE TOI COMMUNITY
Already a member? Log in here