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Sunday, July 27, 2014
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
Trial begins for key suspect in terror killing of Palestinian teenager
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe trial of the main killer of Muhammed Abu Khdeir begins Sunday in the Jerusalem District Court.
Yosef Haim Ben-David, 30, is charged with kidnapping the Palestinian teenager on July 2 together with two accomplices, beating him in the head with a tire iron and then burning him to death in a Jerusalem-area forest. The attack is believed to be a revenge killing for the kidnapping-murders of three Israeli teens by a Hamas-affiliated terror cell in the West Bank in June.
Ben-David is expected to pursue an insanity defense. He has reportedly said he is “the messiah.”
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