| Murder charges were filed today in the Jerusalem District Court against Ahmed Jafara, accused of the murders of Dov Weiss and his wife Gavriela in Givat Ze’ev in February, 2000. The stabbed victims were found in their home in the Jerusalem suburb by their daughter-in-law in the evening hours. The police, who announced almost immediately afterwards that the murder was likely a terrorist crime, suspected Jafara, a resident of a nearby Arab village who had been employed to work in their house. The suspect found refuge in the PA-controlled territories, but IDF soldiers tracked him down and apprehended him a month ago. The indictment states that Jafara murdered the couple after an argument with him. Jafara confessed to the crime and reenacted it, and admitted to perpetrating dozens of other shooting attacks on Israeli security forces as well. |