ISIS-affiliated terrorist gets 3 life sentences plus 40 years for murdering 3 in Jerusalem

The Jerusalem District Court sentences Wasim a-Sayed, an ISIS-affiliated terrorist from Hebron who murdered three people in Jerusalem, to three life sentences and another 40-year prison sentence.

A-Sayed murdered Yehuda Kaduri, 71, and Tamar Kaduri, 68, in their home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv in 2019, and murdered Ivan Tarnovski, a foreign worker from Moldova in 2022 in the same neighborhood.

The day before he murdered the Kaduris he had tried to slit the throat of a 14-year old girl also in Armon Hanatziv, but she managed to escape harm, and he also severely wounded Tarnovski’s roommate in the 2022 attack.

A-Sayed was convicted in September last year on terror charges of two counts of premeditated murder, one count of murder under aggravated circumstances, and two counts of attempted murder.

The court ruled that the severity of his crimes means he will not be eligible for release under any future diplomatic agreement the government might enter into, essentially ruling out his release as part of a hostage deal, or similar.

In 2019, A-Sayed, who had associated himself with the ISIS terror organization, crossed into the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood and stabbed Tamar Kaduri to death and then slit the throat of her husband Yehuda Kaduri in their apartment.

In March 2022, A-Sayed entered the same neighborhood and stabbed Tarnovski to death, also severely wounding his roommate.

A-Sayed confessed to the crimes in 2022 after he was arrested by police, telling investigators he had been looking for Jews to kill.

“The accused slaughtered… three people and tried to slaughter two others, by slitting their throats while they were in their homes or were leaving them, just because they were Jews, or because he thought they were Jews,” says the Jerusalem District Court in announcing its sentence.