Nazareth woman gets 6 months in jail for attempted attack

The Nazareth District Court sentences a 30-year-old local woman to six months in jail and two years probation for an attempted stabbing attack in Afula central bus station in October last year.

Police and Shin Bet investigators said at the time that they did not believe Asra’a Zidan Abed actually planned to stab anyone when she wielded the knife, but was pretending to be a Palestinian terrorist in the hope that she would be shot by security forces. Investigators said she was likely trying to commit suicide, having recently lost custody of a child.

As such, she was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, and not attempted murder. Footage of the incident, which shows Abed standing surrounded by armed officers, quickly went viral.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KRNrMWKtorw