Tel Aviv terrorist given two life sentences

A Palestinian terrorist who stabbed two Israelis to death in Tel Aviv last year is sentenced to two life sentences.

Raed Masalmeh, 36, was found guilty at Tel Aviv District Court in July of the murders of Reuven Aviram and Aharon Yesiav in a south Tel Aviv office building synagogue on November 19, 2015.

Masalmeh, who was also convicted of three counts of attempted murder, is also sentenced to an additional 20 years in jail.

Israeli police at the scene where two Israelis were killed in a stabbing attack by a Palestinian terrorist at the Panorama building in southern Tel Aviv , on November 19, 2015. (Moti Karelitz/ZAKA TEL AVIV)
Israeli police at the scene where two Israelis were killed in a stabbing attack by a Palestinian terrorist at the Panorama building in southern Tel Aviv, on November 19, 2015. (Moti Karelitz/ZAKA TEL AVIV)

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