Shalom Yochai Sherki
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The Jerusalem District Court is expected on Monday to hand down a sentence for terrorist Khaled Kutina of Anata for the murder of Shalom Sherki and the attempted murder of Shira Klein in Jerusalem's French Hill neighborhood on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2015.

According to the indictment, Kutina resolved to murder Jews in a ramming attack, then drove his car until he saw Sherki and Klein, accelerated and hit them.

The murderer gave several versions of the incident before eventually admitting through his lawyers that the attack was indeed deliberate. The district psychiatrist determined Kutina fit to stand trial, but the defense announced it will seek a lighter sentence because of his mental condition.

Sherki's late father, Rabbi Uri Sherki, was quoted in the newspaper Yediot Ahronot, "We want to see justice done and the maximum possible legal punishment."