Police: Stabbing ‘victim’ tried to fake own death in staged terror attack

Police say the 52-year-old man who was found stabbed in his home two months ago in his Tel Aviv-area home was attempting to fake his own death.

According to the Ynet news website, the retired IDF lieutenant colonel attempted to make his death look like a terror attack, by writing “Massacre the Jews” with his own blood at the scene and reporting to police that two Arabs had broken into his apartment and attacked him.

The man, who lives in the agricultural cooperative community of Elishama, northeast of Tel Aviv, was hospitalized with multiple stab wounds to his upper body and was described by doctors as being in serious condition.

Police immediately launched a large-scale manhunt for the perpetrators that included a number of roadblocks and a helicopter.

Ynet says the man left Israel after recovering from his self-inflicted wounds and will be interrogated by police when he returns to Israel.