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Palestinian attacker gets life in prison for stabbing Holocaust survivor to death
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The scene of a deadly terror stabbing in Herzliya on December 27, 2024. (Magen David Adom); inset: Ludmila Lipovsky, 83, who was murdered in the attack. (Courtesy)
Ibrahim Shalhoub, from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, has been sentenced to life in prison for killing 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Ludmila Lipovsky in a terror attack in Herzliya a year ago.
Shalhoub, a former informant for the Shin Bet domestic security service, was indicted on terror charges in January 2025, a month after he stabbed Lipovsky multiple times outside of her assisted living complex.
The indictment said that Shalhoub “drew his knife and stabbed [Lipovsky in the upper body approximately 11 times,” while calling out “Allah is great” and praying in Arabic.
The Tel Aviv District Court sentences Shalhoub to life in prison, as well as damages of NIS 258,000, the highest allowed, according to the Ynet news site.
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