After his arrest, Ahmed Alid told detectives he had committed the acts because of the conflict in Gaza and said he would have killed more people if he had been able to, prosecutors said.
The police are investigating whether there is a connection between the incidents and whether the killing of Bar is a revenge killing of Elimelech a few hours earlier.
According to his LinkedIn profile, the victim was the CEO of an Egyptian frozen fruits and vegetables export business with offices in Ukraine and Israel.
Two members of the public and two police officers were in the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds.
They were friends and perhaps wanted to become lovers. They also loved the Land of Israel and set out to walk through it. Tragically, their walk was horrifyingly interrupted.
Alid had first used two knives to attack his sleeping housemate, to whom became aggressive after learning of his conversion to Christianity, stabbing him six times while shouting "Allahu Akbar."
New Jersey Rabbi Fred Neulander, convicted for hiring hit men to kill his wife in 1994, dies in prison at 82.
Netanyahu ordered the IDF, Shin Bet, and the Israel Police to carry out intense operational and intelligence activity in the Palestinian villages in the area of the disappearance.
Daqqah died at the age of 64, less than a year before he was scheduled to be released in March 2025.
Matthew Karelefsky, 46, was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood.
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