A Palestinian man was sentenced to life in prison and an additional 20 years on Sunday for the rape and murder of Israeli teenager Ori Ansbacher in February 2019. in the wilderness of a jerusalem,
Arafat Irfaiah pleaded guilty in June 2020 in the Jerusalem District Court to first-degree murder, rape and unlawful killing. Ansbacher19, from the township of Takoa.
Judge Rafi Carmel also ruled that Irfaia pay NIS 250,000 (about $72,000) to Ansbacher’s family and an additional NIS 75,000 ($22,000) to her parents and siblings.
,[Irfaiya’s] The actions devastated his family. It is an evil that has no place in our world. Ory’s poem of life ended with a scream, said Carmel. Mention of Kishor’s poetry love.
,[Ansbacher] Carmel, she said, only did more good to others than the defendant who brutally took her life, according to the Ynet news site.
While the proceedings were delayed on several occasions, the Jerusalem District Psychiatrist Irfaiya got To be responsible for your actions and to be fit for testing following an assessment.
Arafat Irfaiah, accused of the rape and murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, is brought to trial in the Jerusalem district court on March 7, 2019. (Jonathan Sindel/Flash90)
The indictment against Irfaia states that he illegally entered Israel from the West Bank armed with a knife.
According to a Channel 12 news report in 2019, Irfaiah told investigators that he entered Israel and sought a Jewish victim because he wanted to be a “martyr”.
According to the report, Irfaya said he had not planned much of the attack in advance, other than buying a kippah so he could slip into Israel.
On the day of the assassination, Ansbacher, who was a volunteer at a youth center in the capital, went for a walk in the woodland of Ein Ya’el on the southern edge of Jerusalem, encountering Irfaya by chance.
“He came to Ansbacher and decided to kill her because she was Jewish,” the chargesheet said. “He attacked Ori with violent ferocity, and though she tried to fight him off, he overpowered her. He inflicted several knife wounds on her all over her body, killing her.
People light candles in memory of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher in Zion Square in Jerusalem on February 9, 2019. (Jonathan Sindel/Flash90)
During a court hearing shortly after the attack, state prosecutors presented evidence against Irfaia to the court, including his DNA, which was found on the murder weapon and at the crime scene.
Prosecutors also told the court that during interrogation, Irfaiya revealed details about Ansbacher that implicated her in his murder.
Israeli security forces demolished his home in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The case generated shock and outrage throughout the country and prompted the government to approve the implementation of a law under which Israel would deduct from tax revenue collected on behalf of Palestinians the Palestinian Authority to pay to Palestinian aggressors and their families. pays every month. ,
