Jewish teen charged in killing of Palestinian to be released to house arrest

An Israeli court has ordered that a Jewish teen suspected of hurling a stone that struck and killed a Palestinian woman in a car in the northern West Bank last October be released to house arrest.

The suspect’s attorney tells The Times of Israel that his client will be released next Tuesday and will wear an electronic monitor.

The 16-year-old suspect, who cannot be named because of privacy laws protecting minors, was charged in January in the death of 47-year-old mother-of-eight Aisha Rabi.

Prosecutors has said DNA belonging to the suspect was found on a stone that hit the vehicle in which Rabi was traveling.

— Jacob Magid