Former caregiver for Ariel terrorist recalls troubled youth

6 February 2018, 3:27 pm

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New details are emerging about the motive of alleged terrorist Abed al-Karim Assi, 19, who stabbed a rabbi to death on Monday.

Assi was “a boy in crisis,” one caregiver from Assi’s troubled youth told the Hadashot television news network.

“His mother didn’t acknowledge him from a young age, and the father lives in Nablus and also didn’t want to acknowledge him [as a son],” the man says.

Assi was “loved by staff and other youth” at the troubled-youth program, the man says, adding that when he heard the name of the suspected terrorist he was “shocked.”

“He never said anything nationalistic. He had no political interests at all, and never expressed any hatred toward us [Jews],” he adds.