A district court joined, this week, the special parole board under the terror law that came into effect in 2019 in ruling that Ami Popper's conviction for the 1990 shooting deaths of seven Gazans and the wounding of ten others at a Rishon Letzion bus stop was not an act of terror.
Popper's act was, he later claimed, tied to revenge against an Arab who sodomized him. President Ezer Weizman had reduced his seven life sentences to 40 years. Prosecutors sought to prevent early release through the new law. As a result of this week's decision, he is eligible to be considered for parole, subject to his rehabilitation and recommendations of the appropriate agencies.