In a rare case of a murder conviction of a Jew for killing an Arab, the Jerusalem District Court on Monday convicted two of the three people accused in the murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Arab from Shuafat in east Jerusalem who was abducted, burned and brutally murdered on July 2, 2014 while waiting to enter a mosque.
The adult defendant Yosef Haim Ben David's verdict was delayed after his lawyer submitted a legal opinion about his sanity delaying his client's verdict.
Two additional Jewish minors, one from Jerusalem and one from Beit Shemesh but whose names are under gag order, were convicted of murder.
News coverage of the slaying led to Arab riots throughout east Jerusalem and the rest of the country.
Ben David, the ringleader, and the two additional Jewish minors, burned Abu Khdeir to death as a nationalist revenge murder following the infamous murder of three Jewish teenagers in June 2014.
By Yonah Jeremy Bob
