A Palestinian teenager who confessed to killing Dafna Meir in her West Bank home last month has been charged with the murder in an Israeli military court.
Morad Bader Abdullah Adais, 16, was arrested in Beit Amra on January 19, two days after Meir’s killing in the nearby Jewish settlement of Otniel. During an interrogation with the Shin Bet security service, the teenager confessed to the crime, the agency says.
Morad Bader Abdullah Adais, arrested for the January 17, 2016 killing of Dafna Meir. (Courtesy)
Adais is charged with killing the 38-year-old mother of four and foster mother of two in the entryway to her home, located just south of Hebron.
He is suspected of entering Meir’s home and killing her before fleeing the scene. Three of Meir’s children were home when she was killed, and one, 17-year-old Renana, gave security forces a description of the killer.
— Judah Ari Gross
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