[IsraelTimes] Ynet report says 15-year-old girl’s dad, who told authorities she planned attack, used to live in Paleostinian village but moved to Israel after his identity was exposed
The father of a teenage girl arrested over a suspected terror stabbing in Haifa is a former Paleostinian informant for the Shin Bet security agency and Israel Defense Forces, according to a report Saturday.
The 15-year-old is suspected of stabbing a 47-year-old man on Friday, wounding him. Police, who said the suspect is a Haifa resident, have described the stabbing as a likely nationalist-motivated attack.
The man, also a local, was released Saturday from the northern city’s Rambam Medical Center. The hospital said he suffered several surface wounds that did not require surgery.
According to the Ynet news site, the suspect’s father previously assisted the IDF and Shin Bet but moved with his family from a village near the West Bank city of Tularkem to Haifa after his identity was exposed several years ago.
He also reportedly has a son and is raising his children alone following the death of his wife.
Shortly after the stabbing, police said the father had informed law enforcement that his daughter told him she intended to carry out an attack.
The news site reported that the girl admitted to Sherlocks that she wanted to stab Jews and quoted relatives saying she was incensed by images from festivities between Paleostinians and police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City that morning.
The report said the father was briefly detained after the stabbing but later released. 
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