Father of policewoman killed in Jerusalem attack runs for Georgia state senate

The American father of an Israeli-American killed in a November stabbing attack in Jerusalem while serving as a policewoman has said he will challenge a Democrat in the Georgia state senate over her failure to support a measure against antisemitism.

Speaking to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, David Lubin says he will run against Sen. Sally Harrell.

Harrell did not support a bill, which eventually passed in January, to enshrine antisemitism in the state’s hate crime laws. She said at the time that broader legislation was needed to offer other minorities clearer protections as well.

“She showed who she was that day by not voting for the bill. She’s not representing her constituents,” Lubin tells the Atlanta paper. “It’s hard to go to bed at night and think that our senator didn’t support tougher hate crime laws.”

Sergeant Rose Ida Lubin, 20, was killed in a stabbing attack outside Jerusalem’s Old City while on duty as a Border Police officer. The 16-year-old assailant, a resident of East Jerusalem’s Issawiya neighborhood, was shot dead at the scene.

Lubin had immigrated to Israel from Atlanta in August 2021. She was drafted to the police as a so-called lone soldier in March 2022.