3 life sentences and 40 years in prison for the murderer of the Kaduri couple

The Jerusalem District Court today (Monday) sentenced Wasim As'id to three life sentences and 40 years in prison for the murder of the late Tamar and Yehuda Kaduri, the murder of the late Ivan Tirvansky and other attempted murders.

The defendant was convicted of two counts of premeditated murder, one count of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted murder, and other offenses as part of his membership in the Islamic State.

It was determined that the sentences of life imprisonment and imprisonment for 40 years would be served cumulatively, and it was also determined that the murders committed by the defendant were exceptional in their severity, a determination that means that he will not be able to be released from prison for reasons of managing the foreign relations of the state and its security.

The first incident took place on the morning of January 9, 2019. The defendant tried to murder the girl H. B. by stabbing her in the neck and wounding her.

The second incident took place on the night between February 10, 2019 and February 11, 2019. The defendant was looking for a Jewish victim to hurt him. At approximately 9:30 P.M., the defendant noticed the late Yehuda Kaduri arriving in his car to the parking lot in front of the entrance to the residential building in Jerusalem where the deceased and his wife Tamar Kaduri lived. He then waited for the late Mr. Kaduri to enter the room where he was hiding, charged at him and stabbed him with a knife.

The third incident took place three years later. The defendant entered Israel on March 20, 2022, with the intention of killing Jews. He arrived in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood and roamed the streets of the neighborhood with the intention of locating a Jewish victim and murdering him. At approximately 01:20 on March 21, 2022, the defendant entered a residential building in the neighborhood, went up to the first floor, entered an apartment with an open door and stabbed the late Ivan Tirvansky, a Moldovan citizen working in Israel, who was sleeping in his bed. He then stabbed another person who was in the apartment and injured him.

In the verdict, which opens with a quote from Chaim Nachman Bialik's poem "On the Slaughter," the panel of judges referred to the fact that the defendant slaughtered three people with a knife, and tried to slaughter two others solely because they were Jewish, or because he thought his victims were Jewish.