Extremist settler found guilty of terror charges in killing of Palestinian mother

More details have been published on yesterday’s conviction of a Jewish terrorist in the 2018 stone-throwing attack that killed Palestinian Aisha Rabi. Rabi, a Palestinian mother of eight, was killed when the rock he threw struck her in the head as she was driving.

The Lod-Central District Court found that the extremist settler committed acts of nationalist-motivated manslaughter, aggravated stone throwing at a vehicle, and deliberately damaging a vehicle, all as acts of terror.

The court issued its ruling in a 2-1 decision yesterday. Only a summary of the ruling was published, since the perpetrator was a minor at the time he committed the offense.

The court sent the youth for review by the Youth Probation Service in order to proceed with arguments for sentencing.

Manslaughter as an act of terrorism is punishable by up to 25 years in prison, depending on the gravity of the incident.

The State Attorney’s Office said in response that the court in its ruling refuted the alibi claimed by the youth, “the lies of the defendant,” and the “contradictions in the later and more elaborate versions he gave.”