The Shin Bet security service has said that the perpetrator of Friday's terror attack in central Israel, Ibrahim Shalhob, was a former informant who worked for Israel's defence establishment to prevent terrorist attacks.
The 28-year-old terrorist from Tulkarem in the West Bank shouted “Allahu Akbar” and then stabbed and mortally wounded a woman near the nursing home where she lived on Kedoshi Hashoah Street in Herzliya on Friday morning.
Magen David Adom emergency personnel treated the victim, Ludmila Lipovsky, 83, and she was evacuated in critical condition to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital), where doctors pronounced her death.
Security guards from the Israel Postal Company’s Brink’s courier unit shot the lone attacker, who was then arrested by police.
