{"id":91058,"date":"2026-01-04T12:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=91058"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:37:16","slug":"palestinian-sentenced-to-life-for-2024-murder-of-shoah-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/palestinian-sentenced-to-life-for-2024-murder-of-shoah-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian sentenced to life for 2024 murder of Shoah survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By JNS STAFF<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta-str\"><span class=\"light-weight-content\">(<em>JNS.org<\/em><\/span><span class=\"light-weight-content\">) \u2013&nbsp;<\/span>The Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday sentenced a Palestinian terrorist to life in prison for the fatal&nbsp;stabbing&nbsp;of 83-year-old Ludmila Lipovsky outside her nursing home in the central city of Herzliya on Dec. 27, 2024.<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_91059\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91059\" class=\"wp-image-91059 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91059\" class=\"wp-image-91059 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Israeli-Chief-of-Police-Daniel-Levi-at-the-scene-of-a-stabbing-attack-in-Herzliya-1320x880-1.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-91059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levi at the scene of a stabbing attack in Herzliya, Dec. 27, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni\/Flash90.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ibrahim Shalhob, from the Palestinian terrorist hotspot of Tulkarem in Samaria, stabbed his victim in the upper body approximately 11 times while exclaiming \u201cAllahu Akbar,\u201d the ruling stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lipovsky, a Holocaust survivor, was evacuated in critical condition to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center\u2019s Ichilov Hospital, where she succumbed to her wounds. Armed guards from the Israel Postal Company\u2019s Brink\u2019s courier unit shot Shalhob, who was subsequently arrested by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lipovsky\u2019s family was awarded 258,000 shekels ($81,000) in damages, the most allowed, according to a report by the&nbsp;<em>Ynet<\/em>&nbsp;Hebrew outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The terrorist had previously served jail time under administrative detention three times, most recently from June 2023 to June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said that Shalhob was also a past informant, who was involved in \u201cthwarting terrorist infrastructures in Judea and Samaria, was exposed and transferred for rehabilitation in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"end-of-article-donate popup _hide_if_pressplus_user _hide_if_society_user _hide_if_premium_user\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Palestinian%20sentenced%20to%20life%20for%202024%20murder%20of%20Shoah%20survivor\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14995,14994,8781,8790,8795,14993,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91060,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91058\/revisions\/91060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}