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Thursday, January 29, 2026
Police to file terror charges against Palestinian who killed 2 in ramming-stabbing attack last month
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State prosecutors are set to file terror charges against Ahmad Abu al-Arroub, who carried out a fatal ramming-stabbing attack last month.
Arroub, a Palestinian from the West Bank city of Qabatiya, killed two people and injured two others in a stabbing and car-ramming rampage in northern Israel.
Following an investigation by the Shin Bet and Northern District police investigative unit, Arroub will be charged in the Nazareth District Court with murdering Shimshon Mordechai, 68, and Aviv Maor, 18. He also faces three additional counts of attempted murder, police say.
According to law enforcement, Arroub crossed into Jerusalem through a weak point in the West Bank security barrier a few days before he carried out the attack on December 26. He was employed in construction by an Israeli citizen from Arraba.
The morning of the attack, Arroub set out with his employer to Mesilot, a northern kibbutz where he was working as a plasterer.
That afternoon, he took a knife and screwdriver from the site and stole his employer’s pickup truck.
He used the vehicle to fatally ram Mordechai in the northern town of Beit She’an, then proceeded to Kibbutz Ein Harod, where he stabbed Maor as she waited at a bus stop. Right after that, he was shot by an armed civilian while en route to the nearby town of Afula.
Police say that indictments will also be filed against Arroub’s two brothers, who were working illegally in Israel, as well as his employer.
The Times of Israel Community.