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Tel Aviv court jails soldier’s killer for life

14 September 2016, 3:21 pm
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Tel Aviv District Court hands down a life sentence to Palestinian man from Nablus who murdered an IDF soldier in an attack in the city in 2014.

Sahar Shiloni (L), twin brother of slain IDF soldier Almog Shiloni, mourns during his funeral at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on November 11, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Sahar Shiloni (L), twin brother of slain IDF soldier Almog Shiloni, mourns during his funeral at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on November 11, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nur al-Din Abu Khashiyeh stabbed 20-year-old Almog Shiloni, who was serving in the Air Force, mutiple times outside the Tel Aviv train station in November 2014. Shiloni later died in hospital of his wounds.

The court rules that Khashiyeh should serve a minimum of 40 years and pay Shiloni’s family NIS 258,000 (approx. $70,000) in compensation, the Ynet news website reports.

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