Head of pre-army academy calls for release of Dawabshe family murder

Rabbi Tzvi Kostiner, who heads a pre-army academy for religious recruits, calls for the release of Amiram Ben Uliel, who killed three members of a Palestinian family in 2015.

Amiram Ben Uliel was sentenced to three life sentences plus 20 years for the deadly firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma in which Riham and Saad Dawabshe were killed along with their 18-month-old son, Ali Saad. Only the couple’s eldest son, Ahmed, survived, with terrible burns; he was 5 years old at the time.

Kostiner says “he did nothing wrong” and urges authorities to release him from solitary confinement and hopes for his release as soon as possible.

The remarks are slammed by Labor party chair Merav Michaeli, who tweets: “This is what supporters of Jewish terror look like.”

Michaeli calls on Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to cut off the partnership between the IDF and Kostiner’s academy as long as he heads it.

“An inciteful person full of poison that already called for students to refuse to serve with women in the IDF. [He] acts against the LGBT community and pride parades in the city. A person whose institution is fairly funded by the State of Israel,” she wrote.