Dvir Sorek
A military court gave Ahmad Asafra life plus 25 years and ordered him to pay the family of Dvir Sorek $450,000 in damages.
Ahmad Asafra has not yet been sentenced; cell member Yusef Zohar received life plus 15 years for security offenses.
Outdoor rest area honors memory of Dvir Sorek, killed in 2019 terror attack
Students cleaned up the wooded area and created a path to the site, where they placed benches and picnic tables they made themselves.
The terrorist’s family was uninvolved in the attack, and the execution of the demolition order was delayed too long, says court • Sorek family representative: “High Court is responsible for the next murder.”
Locals pelt troops with stones and tires • Israeli Defense Minister: Israel must “exact a heavy price” from those who attack its citizens • Dvir’s father Yoav: “Demolitions should have happened sooner.”
Israeli court rejects an appeal by the suspects’ families, paving the way for the demolition of the two family homes near Hebron.
Both are from a town near Hebron; one has been linked to Hamas.
The suspect has been identified as Ammar Thawabteh, 29, of the Palestinian village of Beit Fajjar. His role in the attack is still unknown.
Meanwhile, American Jewish organizations condemn the stabbing of Dvir Sorek, 19, and ask the international community to take action against the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” policy.
Israel Shin Bet security service said that Hamas is expending resources to recruit terrorists to carry out attacks in Judea and Samaria.
The Israeli prime minister lays a cornerstone for 650 housing units in Beit El • Hamas, Islamic Jihad salute “heroic fighters” for murder of Israeli student • Victim’s father: “We will carry the pain.”
Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander said Dvir Sorek, 18, “was a young man who believed in treating every human being in the image of God, no matter what religion.”
