Police say that an officer has been transferred after an investigation found there was a “serious disciplinary and operational failure” in the circumstances surrounding the killing of Border Police officer Sgt. Rose Elisheva Lubin, 20.
According to the statement by police, the unnamed officer abandoned his post and “acted in complete opposition to orders and instructions” at the time of Monday’s stabbing attack.
It is unclear from the police statement whether the officer abandoned his post ahead of the attack, or during.
The assailant, a 16-year-old resident of East Jerusalem’s Issawiya neighborhood, was shot dead at the scene.
Lubin moved to Israel from the United States in August 2021, and was drafted to police as a so-called “lone soldier” in March 2022.
She was buried today at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl cemetery.
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