Jewish extremist convicted in 2018 killing of Palestinian woman

A Jewish extremist is convicted on at least one charge included in an indictment filed against him in 2019 over a stoning attack in which Aisha Rabi, a 47-year-old Palestinian mother of eight, was killed as she was driving.

The two-to-one ruling in the Lod-Central District Court is yet to be published because the convict was a minor when he committed the offense.

The charges in the indictment were manslaughter, aggravated stone throwing at a moving vehicle, and intentional sabotage of a vehicle. It is not yet known on which charge he has been convicted.

In 2020 Israeli authorities recognized the attack as terrorism.

Rabi was killed after the youth, who was 16-years old at the time, hurled a large rock at the windshield of her car as she traveled with her husband and daughter near the northern West Bank’s Tapuah Junction.

According to the indictment, the youth departed from the Pri Haaretz yeshiva in the settlement of Rehelim, where he studied, accompanied by several other students, on the evening of October 12, 2018.

The group arrived at a hilltop between the Rehelim Junction and the Tapuah Junction, overlooking Route 60 — the West Bank’s main north-south artery. The convicted youth then hurled a large rock weighing roughly two kilograms (4.4 pounds) at a Palestinian vehicle, “out of an ideological motive of racism and hostility toward Arabs everywhere,” the indictment said.