Terrorist Arafat Arfaya, who is being held on suspicion of murdering Ori Ansbacher last Thursday, threatened to carry out a terrorist attack two years ago in order to become a martyr or to go to jail, according to Channel 13 Television.

The station broadcast transcripts of Arfaya's interrogation from 2017, after he was arrested by police officers at the entrance to the Temple Mount with a large kitchen knife in his pocket. During the interrogation in 2017, he said, "I will do it again, I will buy a knife again and I will come back here to go to jail or be a martyr."