The Supreme Court has rejected the State Attorney’s Office’s appeal for his release to house arrest under restrictive conditions of ‘Z’, the minor from the Pri Eitz Yeshiva in Rechalim in Shomron, who is accused of stone-throwing and the killing of a Palestinian woman, Aisha Rabi.

‘Z’ was released last week by the District Court in Lod, after the forensic institute, explained it cannot determine that she was killed by the stone she allegedly threw. The State Prosecutor’s Office appealed the decision and claimed that he was a dangerous person accused of manslaughter, but Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein rejected the appeal and ruled that house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor his whereabouts is sufficient to ensure that the defendant could not commit another crime.

‘Z’ is a talmid in the Pri Haaretz Yeshiva in Rechalim in Shomron and stands accused of throwing rocks from a hilltop adjacent to Route 60, targeting a main vehicular thoroughfare between Rechalim and Tapuach Junction. The prosecution maintains the accused picked up a stone weighing almost 2kg and acting out of an ideology against Arabs, waited until he was able to identify a passing vehicle as being Arab and not Jewish and then throwing the stone.

PA (Palestinian Authority) resident Aisha Rabi, a mother of eight, was being driven by her husband in a vehicle passing by and the stone was thrown on the vehicle. The driver continued to the nearby Tapuach Checkpoint and Rabi was transferred to a local PA medical facilty, where she was pronounced dead.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)