The state prosecution has charged two Arabs who ran down and killed a nine year old girl on Yom Kippur with manslaughter. Asad Nasim Shibli (20) and Muhammad Mamon Shibli (21) from Arab a-Shibli entered neighboring Kfar Tavor as Yom Kippur began, driving an ATV at high speed. They drove through a crowd that had gathered outside the synagogue and killed Tal Zino, a nine year old girl.
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The charge sheet shows that the two planned their action in advance. In early September, two or three weeks before Yom Kippur, the driver drove his ATV wildly near the Kfar Tavor gas station. When a uniformed Border Police volunteer castigated him for this, he answered: "Wait and see what we'll do to you on Yom Kippur." He then made a rude gesture at the volunteer and drove off wildly.
The prosecution initially intended to charge the driver with murder but leftist protests led it to change the charges to manslaughter.