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Monday, 5 October 2026dailybeirut.com
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Israeli prosecutors have indicted a university lecturer for planning simultaneous attacks to kill 700 Arabs, aiming to force their mass displacement from Israel.
Israeli prosecutors revealed on Monday the arrest of an Israeli university lecturer who planned to kill 700 Arabs in simultaneous operations aimed at forcing the Arab population into mass displacement.
The Israeli Attorney General stated in a press release that they filed an indictment today with the Central District Court in Lod against a mathematics lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, approximately 60 years old and a resident of Petah Tikva. The indictment alleges that over several years, driven by national-ideological motives, he devised and planned an extreme and bloody scheme against hundreds of Arab citizens in Israel, including Bedouins, as well as Arabs residing in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The suspect named his plan "Eit," which are the initials of a Hebrew phrase meaning: "The people will execute the transfer."
The prosecution attributes security crimes to the suspect in the indictment, including preparation to carry out a terrorist act under the Counter-Terrorism Law, extortion by threat, and obstruction of justice.
They requested that the court keep the suspect in custody until the conclusion of legal proceedings against him.
It is noted that the court has issued, at this stage, an order prohibiting the publication of the suspect's name.
According to the indictment, following the events of "Guardian of the Walls" and later more severely after the "Swords of Iron" war, the suspect decided, driven by national-ideological motives, to plan the execution of numerous simultaneous attacks with the goal of causing the death of hundreds of Arab citizens in Israel, including Bedouins, throughout Israel, in addition to Arabs residing in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The prosecution states that the objective was to drive them to flee and permanently displace them to Jordan, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip.
Over more than three years, since early February 2023 until his arrest about two weeks ago, the suspect, according to the prosecution, developed an organized and detailed plan he called "Eit" (The people will execute the transfer).
To implement and advance his plan, he carried out various actual preparatory acts, including preliminary field tours, preparing documents explaining the method of execution and its justifications, and attempting to recruit individuals to participate in the attacks he planned, according to the Attorney General.
According to the attributed plan, 72 Jewish attackers were supposed to participate, at least half of whom possessed weapons licenses, including the suspect himself, to be divided into 12 cells, each comprising six people.
The plan involved arming themselves with various types of weapons, such as pistols, rifles, axes, and hammers, and launching surprise mass attacks in mixed cities and Arab towns across Israel.
The indictment also indicates that the plan included the cells receiving assistance and support coordinated in advance with sabotage elements the suspect sought to recruit from within the Israeli army, including targeting Arab population centers via the Air Force, artillery, and armored corps.
According to the indictment, the suspect presented in the practical side of his plan, which he called "How we execute Eit here and now," instructions for public participation in what he explicitly described as "the execution of mass killing and rapid control of friction zones, roads, entrances and exits of Arab towns, mixed cities, and hospitals."
The document also included, according to the prosecution, calls to show no mercy even towards women and children, and not to yield to victims' pleas.
The prosecution states that the plan relied on the simultaneous mass attacks, alongside their real-time dissemination and promotion via social networks, leading to the flight of Arab citizens in Israel, including Bedouins, and Palestinians residing in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, outside Israel's borders.
In his attempt to push the plan toward implementation, the suspect tried for about a year and a half to recruit supporters and partners but failed.
He also conducted a reconnaissance tour around the Arab village of Tuba-Zangariya to study access routes and methods he deemed suitable for attacking it, as he wanted to include it as one of the main targets of the plan.
According to the secret scheme he devised for recruiting participants, the suspect planned to contact Moshe Feiglin, a candidate in the upcoming Knesset elections heading the "Identity" party list and ranked second on the joint list between "Identity" and Religious Zionism, attempting to bring him into the plan and then using him to recruit additional activists.
The Israeli prosecution states that the suspect planned to invite pre-selected activists to an electoral conference for the "Identity" party, where attendees would be informed during the conference that they had been recruited to participate in an attack the following day, and detailed instructions would be distributed to them in preparation for executing the attacks.
The suspect attended two public events held by Feiglin and attempted to arrange a meeting to hand him a summary of the plan, but Feiglin did not respond to any of his attempts.
About a month ago, as the election date approached, the suspect wrote an extortion letter addressed to Feiglin, harshly criticizing his lack of cooperation with the plan, and threatened that if he did not cooperate quickly and help advance it, he would publish the letter, which he believed would cause public harm to Feiglin before the elections.
About two days later, the suspect arrived at Feiglin's home and handed the extortion letter to a neighbor passing by, asking her to deliver it to him, which she did.
Later, he attended an event for the "Identity" party in Mahane Yehuda Market (West Jerusalem), and through another woman, delivered several copies of the extortion letter to the party's CEO, along with an additional message containing a similar threat to the one directed at Feiglin.
It added: "The investigation began after the internal security agency (Shin Bet) received preliminary information about his alleged plan, and the case was referred to the Serious Crimes Unit of the Central District Police."
It continued: "The prosecution requested that he remain in detention until the conclusion of legal proceedings; he faces charges of preparing to commit a terrorist act under the Israeli Counter-Terrorism Law, extortion by threat, and obstruction of justice."
It noted that "During a session held on Monday at the 'Lod' District Court, the suspect's lawyers also requested to maintain the gag order preventing the disclosure of his name; arguing that the indictment 'could harm the State of Israel internationally,' and pointing out that family members in Australia could also be harmed if his identity were revealed."
It said: "The judge extended the gag order until noon on October 7 of this year."
It indicated that he planned to kill 700 Arabs.
It said: "According to the prosecution, he was planning to recruit 71 additional Jewish attackers and divide the participants - totaling 72 people including himself - into 12 terror cells, each comprising six individuals; at least half of them were supposed to hold firearms licenses."
It added: "These cells were planned to be armed with pistols, rifles, axes, and hammers, and to launch sudden, simultaneous attacks in mixed cities (inhabited by Jews and Arabs) and in Arab and Bedouin residential communities, with the aim of killing hundreds of people and forcibly and permanently driving Arabs and Palestinians toward Jordan, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip."
It continued: "One section - according to allegations - included instructions for participants to show no mercy, including towards women and children, and not to stop in response to any pleas."
The alleged preparations spanned from February 2023 until his arrest last month, including reconnaissance tours, preparation of detailed handwritten documents, and repeated attempts to recruit others.
It added: "The university will absolutely not tolerate such phenomena, and the lecturer's employment will be suspended immediately until the conclusion of judicial proceedings."
