The killer of a 29-year-old pregnant Israeli woman has been sentenced to life in prison.
Palestinian Authority terrorist Muhammad Harouf insisted that he be convicted of a murder driven by “nationalist” motives and not by anything to do with a romance gone bad with Michal Halimi, who was alleged to be his girlfriend.
Halimi was eight months pregnant when her body was discovered in 2017 half-buried by trash and sand in the beach dunes near the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon. She had been struck in the head with a rock and strangled to death, according to the State Attorney’s Office.
Harouf, a resident of Shechem (Nablus) won a plea deal in Tel Aviv District Court in which he would be convicted on nationalistically-motivated murder charges rather than having killed over romance, despite evidence to the contrary.
The difference is important, because the former conviction constitutes documentation that enabled Harouf to earn an extremely generous monthly salary from the Ramallah government of the Palestinian Authority for the rest of his life.
In this case, the conviction was also welcomed by Halimi’s parents and husband who maintained throughout that she had never been unfaithful, but rather had been an unwilling hostage to an Arab terrorist.