The High Court of Justice on Tuesday morning 22 Sivan rejected a petition filed on behalf of the so-called Jewish terrorist, Yaakov (Jack) Teital. Teital was convicted of murdering two Arabs in addition to carrying out numerous other attacks.
Teital now maintains at the time he carried out the attacks he was not mentally sound but “delusionary”. He explains in the petition that angels of God instructed him to act as he did and in essence, took away his free will.
The court started that to raise this line of defense at this stage is more than a bit strange. Justices Nir Hendel, Noam Solberg and Uri Shoham rejected the petition, stating Teital is not mentally ill and he was not incapacitated and was fully aware of his actions.
Hence, the court decided to remain uninvolved in the decision made by a district court pertaining to his mental health.
Teital, a resident of Shvut Rachel in the Shomron, was arrested in October 2009 on suspicion of murdering an Arab in 1997 as well as bomb attack against prominent left-wing profession Sternhell and an attack against Jews for ‘J’. He admitted to murdering two Arabs and carrying out attacks during a period of 12 years.
He was sentenced to two life sentences plus 30 years.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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3 Responses
Crazy.
very good, he has blood on his hands, lot of terror attacks from the arabs in the last 6 years is under his responsibility.
1. This BT turned chareidi is another product of Israel’s violent secular education system. And the chilonim still have the nerve to blame chareidim or chareidi schools.
2. There’s no such thing as “Jewish Terrorist”. He’s a murderer, a rotzei’ach, but definitely not a terrorist like Arabs.