Palestinian Who Murdered Rabbi Shai Ohayon, Hy”d, Gets Life in Prison

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Israeli security forces at the scene of the terror attack in Petach Tikva in which Rabbi Ohayon was killed on August 26, 2020. (Flash90)

The Lod District Court on Sunday sentenced a Palestinian terrorist to life in prison for the murder of Rabbi Shai Ohayon, Hy”d, in Petach Tikva in August of 2020.

Khalil Abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, from the village of Rujeeb in the northern Shomron, was convicted of stabbing Rabbi Ohayon to death in a city street.

The indictment against Dweikat said he worked at a construction site in the city and had a valid permit to be in Israel.

“The defendant considered and arrived at a decision to kill a Jewish citizen or soldier with a knife… for Palestine, the Palestinian people, the Al-Aqsa mosque and All-h,” the prosecutors wrote.

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