ISIS terrorist Wasim a-Sayed who brutally murdered Tamar, 68, H’yd, and Yehuda Kadouri, 71, H’yd, in January  2019, was sentenced by the Jerusalem District Court on Monday to three life sentences and 40 years in prison for the murder of the Kadouri couple, the murder of Ivan Tarnowskia, a Moldovan foreign worker, and additional attempted murders. The shocking murder of the Kadouri couple rocked the nation at the time and developed into a huge scandal after police arrested one of the couple’s Chareidi sons and his wife as suspects in the murder. They were eventually released due to lack of evidence. The grisly murder remained unsolved until 2022. The defendant was convicted of two counts of premeditated murder; one count of murder under aggravated circumstances, two counts of attempted murder as an act of terrorism and additional offenses, as part of his membership in the Islamic State organization, ISIS. It was determined that the life sentences and the 40-year sentence would run consecutively, and it was also decided that the murders committed by the defendant are exceptional in their severity, which means that he cannot be released in the future as part of a hostage release deal. The defendant was ordered to pay the maximum compensation to the victims of the crime due to the murders, as well as additional compensation to the victims of the attempted murder. In the verdict, which began with a quote from Chaim Nachman Bialik’s poem ‘על השחיטה,’ the panel of judges referred to the fact that the defendant slaughtered three individuals with a knife and attempted to slaughter two more solely because of their Jewish identity, or because he thought his victims were Jewish. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)