Ari Fuld, photo courtesy of Facebook. Khalil Jabarin, a Palestinian man, was sentenced to life in prison on July 21 for the stabbing death of Israeli American Ari Fuld, and the attempted killing of three other people in September 2018.
The Judea Military Court in the West Bank also ruled that Jabarin, who was 17 at the time of Fuld’s killing, has to pay Fuld’s family NIS 1.25 million ($368,125.)
Maurice Hirsch, the Fuld family attorney, argued that the court should have handed down multiple life sentences to Jabarin because he had intended to kill others. He also argued that the compensatory amount should have been larger.
“The court completely ignored the fact that the PA [Palestinian Authority] is going to pay the terrorist over NIS 5 million for murdering Ari,” Hirsch said. “By awarding damages of only NIS 1.25 million, the court sent a clear message — terror pays.”
However, Fuld’s widow, Miriam, said she believed the sentence was appropriate.
“I felt that the judges heard us and then got to know the man that Ari was,” she said in a statement.
Jabarin stabbed Fuld, 45, multiple times in the back and at a supermarket near the Gush Etzion Junction. Fuld then pursued Jabarin and shot him before he could injure anyone else.
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