The police have filed a prosecutor's declaration of intent to prosecute against a suspect in the Sunday-evening attack on Mayor of Beit Shemesh, Moshe Abutbul. A knife and pepper spray were found on the suspect after he threw ice cream and beer at the mayor
On Monday, the suspect was brought before the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, which extended his detention, in order to file a request for detention until the end of the proceedings and an indictment. The police said that "arrest, quick execution of the investigation and holding a trial within a short period of time constitute an important and central part of the determined and uncompromising activity of the Israel Police in any case where there is a suspicion that violent offenses are committed and possession of assault tools, especially when the offense is committed against a public official within the framework of his position, in order to bring about the arrest of suspects and their removal from the environment of the elected public and the normative citizen."