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| Palestinian jailed for life for stabbing Holocaust survivor to death in terror attack |
| 2026-01-05 |
| [IsraelTimes] Ibrahim Shalhoub from West Bank, an ex-Shin Bet informant, also ordered to pay damages for murdering 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Ludmila Lipovsky in Herzliya in December 2024 Ibrahim Shalhoub, from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, was sentenced to life in prison on Sunday for killing 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Ludmila Lipovsky in a terror attack in Herzliya in December 2024. Shalhoub, a former informant for the Shin Bet domestic security service, was indicted on terror charges in January 2025, a month after he stabbed Lipovsky multiple times outside of her assisted living complex. The indictment said that Shalhoub "drew his knife and stabbed [Lipovsky] in the upper body approximately 11 times," while calling out "Allah is great" and praying in Arabic. Shalhoub continued to stab Lipovsky until he was shot and maimed by a security guard from the Israel Post office who had been nearby. The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced Shalhoub to life in prison and awarded damages of NIS 258,000 ($81,000), the highest sum allowed, according to the Ynet news site. Shalhoub, 28, was allowed to leave Tulkarem and take up residency in Israel after his identity as a Shin Bet informant was exposed. According to the indictment, his family severed all ties with him shortly after he moved, and he decided to carry out a terror attack. Two days before murdering Lipovsky, Shalhoub purchased a long kitchen knife with which to carry out the attack. He then spent the next day in Herzliya, scoping out an appropriate site for his attack, before settling on an assisted living complex in the city. The following day, he armed himself with his new knife and one other knife, and made his way to the site he had inspected the previous day. Lipovsky was outside when he arrived, having just left the complex to wait for her daughter, who was supposed to be driving her to an appointment. Shalhoub stabbed her multiple times. Lipovsky was rushed by the Magen David Adom ambulance service to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, where doctors pronounced her dead. According to the Ynet news site, the Shin Bet concluded in an initial investigation that Shalhoub was not planning the attack for any significant length of time before carrying it out. The security agency also stressed in the aftermath of the attack that its informants work in dangerous conditions on behalf of the State of Israel and that there had never before been an incident in which a former informant carried out a terror attack after moving to Israel. Related: Tulkarem: 2026-01-01 Israel begins demolishing 25 buildings in West Bank Palestinian refugee camp Tulkarem: 2025-12-13 Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich: who is leading Israel's political decline Tulkarem: 2025-12-10 West Bank: IDF said to search two Palestinian universities, find rockets in Tulkaren |
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