Husband of woman killed by Jewish terrorist: I’d have liked him to go to university, not prison

Yakoub Rabi says the conviction of the man who killed his wife, Aisha Rabi, “changed nothing for me.”

A Jewish terrorist was convicted today in the 2018 stoning attack in which Aisha Rabi, a 47-year-old Palestinian mother of eight, was killed as she was driving in the West Bank. The convicted man’s name is barred from publication because he was a minor at the time.

Her husband tells The Times of Israel: “I heard the moment the decision was announced and looked at the killer and felt pain. I would have liked to see [the convicted man] at university, becoming a teacher — not standing in court as a killer, not going to prison.”

He says that as he was leaving the courthouse, the man’s family cursed at him.

Rabi adds, “What I want for my children, I want for others.”

He says that despite the time that has passed, life remains difficult. “Aisha is in my memory — in my heart and in my mind, and in those of the children. I still drive her car.

“She already has four grandchildren” born after her death, he says.