Jerusalem Pride Parade Stabber Charged With Premeditated Murder, Attempted Murder
Yishai Schlissel, the man who stabbed six people Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade in July, causing the death of 16-year-old Shira Banki, was indicted on Monday for his crimes, reported Haaretz. Schlissel, 39, is charged with one count of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder.
Shlissel, an Ultra-Orthodox Jew from Modiin Illit, stabbed three people at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade in 2005. He was released from prison just weeks before he committed the crimes he is currently standing trial for; the fact that Schlissel committed a similar crime ten years later seems like an egregious oversight by Israeli police.